Top 17 Quotes by Frederick Pollock

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.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

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.

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

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.