A judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found the long-winded speeches of lawyers especially trying and advised them to take a course of reading risque books that they might learn to say things by innuendo.
Court Quotes
Once a lawyer was arguing a case before three lord justices in the court of appeal, dealing with an elementary point of law at inordinate length. Finally, the master of the rolls, who was presiding, intervened: “Really,” he protested, “do give this court credit for some intelligence.” Quick as a flash came the reply: “That […]
Should troubles incline you to law with a friend, You’d better remain as you are; If you take it to Court both must lose in the end – That’s the only relief at the Bar.
Court, n.: A place where they dispense with justice.
It is always term-Time in the Court of Conscience.
There are three ways, the Universities, the Sea, the Court.
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
When you go into court, you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
A child also cannot be made a witness in a court of law, nor a woman… nor a cheat. . . These persons might give false evidence. A child would speak falsely from ignorance, a woman from want of veracity, an impostor from habitual depravity.
