Frederick Pollock

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

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.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.