LAW LAW
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
That very law which moulds a tear,
And bids it trickle from its source.
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
La loi perrcet souvent ce que deiend l'honneur.
The law often allows what honor forbids.
Sauktn—Spartacus. III. 3.
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| text = Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.
If you judge, investigate; if you reign,
command.
Seneca—Medea. CXCIV.
Qui statuit aliquid, parte inaudita altera,
jEquum licet statuerit, haud aequus fuerit.
He who decides a case without hearing the
other side, though he decide justly, cannot be
considered just.
Seneca—Medea. CXCDC
Inertis est nescire, quid liceat sibi.
Id facere, laus est, quod decet; non, quod licet.
It is the act of the indolent not to know what
he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do
what is becoming, and not merely what is
lawful.
Seneca—Octavia. CCCCLIII.
There is a higher law than the Constitution.
W. H. Seward—Speech. March 11, 1850.
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| text = You who wear out a good wholesome forenoon
in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and
a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy
of three pence to a second day of audience.
Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 77.
He hath resisted law,
And therefore law shall scorn him further trial
Than the severity of the public power.
Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 267.
In the corrupted currents of this world,
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;
There is no shuffling, there the action lies
In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,
Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
To give in evidence.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 57.
But is this law?
Ay, marry is 't; crowner's quest law.
Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 23.
But, I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art kmg?
and resolution thus fobbed as it is with the rusty
curb of old father antic the law?
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 65.
Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
And never yet could frame my will to it;
And therefore frame the law unto my will.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 7.
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
Henry VI. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 11.
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| text = The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 84.
Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 333.
When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
King John. Act III. ' Sc. 1. L. 185.
"Lis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you
gave me nothing for 't.
King Lear. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 142.
Bold of your worthiness, we single you
As our best-moving fair solicitor.
Love' 's Labour 's Lost. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 28.
We have strict statutes and most biting laws.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.
To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
And of opposed natures.
Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. L. 61.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But, being season'd with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil?
Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 75.
It must not be; there is no power in Venice
Can alter a decree established:
'Twill be recorded for a precedent;
And many an error by the same example
Will rush into the state.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 218.
The bloody book of law
You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
After your own sense.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 67.
I am a subject,
And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;
And therefore personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent.
Richard II. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 133.
Before I be convict by course of law,
To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 192.
