Top 17 Quotes by 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.

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

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

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

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

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.

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.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.