Common Law Pleading

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

    “A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “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)