Frederick Pollock Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.”

“It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.”

“It is strange how little harm bad codes do.”

“The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.”

“The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.”

“Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.”

“Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.”