Common Law Pleading

Famous quotes containing the words common, law and/or pleading:

    “Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Second Sunday in Advent, “The Collect,” (1662)

    “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)

    “Sweet, let me go! Sweet, let me go!
    What do you mean to vex me so?
    Cease, cease, cease your pleading force!”
    —Unknown. Sweet, Let Me Go! (L. 1–3)