Try QuoteGPT
Chat naturally about what you need. Each answer links back to real quotes with citations.
From an early time, again, we have had a central and powerful legislature which, as it represents the estates of the whole realm, has made statutes b… - Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
" "From an early time, again, we have had a central and powerful legislature which, as it represents the estates of the whole realm, has made statutes binding on the whole, and knows no legal bounds to its competence. Thus our laws have been eminently national and positive, and our particular legal habit of mind is perhaps the most insular of our many insular traits. Our long standing apart from the general movement of European thought has had its drawbacks; but I think it the better opinion that both in jurisprudence and in the not wholly dissimilar case of philosophy the gain has outweighed them.
English
Collect this quote
About Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC FBA (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937) was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F. W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles.
Also Known As
Birth Name:
Frederick Pollock
Alternative Names:
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Bt.
•
F. Po.
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
Our lady the Common Law will note other people's fashions and take a hint from them in season, but she will have no thanks for judges or legislators who steal incongruous tags and patches and offer to bedizen her raiment with them. Assimilation of foreign elements, we have already seen, may be a very good thing. Crude and hasty borrowing of foreign details is unbecoming at best, and almost always mischievous. When you are tempted to make play with foreign ideas or terms, either for imitation or for criticism, the first thing is to be sure that you understand them.
Since the classical period of Roman law there has never been a constitution of affairs more apt to foster the free and intelligent criticism of legal authorities, the untrammelled play of legal speculation and analysis, than now exists in the States of the American Union, where law is developed under many technically independent jurisdictions, but in deference and conformity to a common ideal.
Loading...