Common Law Pleading

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

    “All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.”
    —Plutarch (46–120)

    “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)