Famous quotes containing the words civil, law and/or courts:
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“In law it is a good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
““With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophat”Ma token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)