Top 17 Quotes by Frederick Pollock

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.

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.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

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.

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.

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

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.