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it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- read more
it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to -- to prove you're client's guilt.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
The law's made to take care o' raskills.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when read more
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.
The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very
expensive and dilatory.