No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
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Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the...
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
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One line even revisits the old, now-abandoned rule of thumb once attributed to English common law, a reminder that legal tradition isn't static; see also book quotes on how it's recorded.
