Frederick Pollock Quotes
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Vocation)
"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Life, Man)
"The oldest theory of contract is I think negative."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Negative, Theory)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Pretty, Public)
"Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Lady, Law, Old)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Action, Debt, Difference, Law, Will)
"Medieval justice was a quaint thing."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Justice)
"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Law)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Men, Ethics, Law, Principles)
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Abortion, states)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Consideration, Horses, Promises, Reason)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Pet, Students)
"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."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Fact, Revolution, Merit, Will)
"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Universe)
"The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art."
- Frederick Pollock
(Related: Art, Law, Practice)
"It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation."
- Frederick Pollock