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Letter "P" » practice of law
«Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it»
«An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men»
Author: Ignazio Silon
| Keywords:
achieves, earthquake, earthquakes, equality, equality before the law, in practice, maintain, practice of law, promises
«Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.»
Author: Ronald D. Dworkin
| About:
Integrity,
Understanding
| Keywords:
legal, practice of law, territory
«It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, Executive power, government of the United, government of the United States, practice of law, President of, President of the, President of the United, President of the United States, settled, United States Constitution, United States government, vest, vested, vests
«In all of this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife among nations.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| Keywords:
occasion, practice of law, promise, put into practice, scout, scouting, Scouts, strife, take away, wars
«PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absence of a definite statute, has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it, thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything, he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accentuate, arbitrament, dirigible, elevates, fortuitous, practice of law, precedents, previous, simplifying, statute, The Trial
«States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
enact, enacted, enacting, ending, inhumane, Laws, otherwise, particularly, practice of law, States
«I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
cry out, discrimination, legal, legal profession, owed, practice of law, The Practice, unjust, upholding
«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition
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