Common Law Pleading

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

    “The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children...”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 4:8,9.

    “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)