Law And Equity Quotes

#1. The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

Plutarch

#2. Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Caleb Colton

#3. Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to.

Joe Abercrombie

#4. Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

#5. This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

Prince Charles

#6. She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

Lorna Landvik

#7. The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

Jack Cade

#8. Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Philip Massinger

#9. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

#11. In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.

Norris Henderson

#12. It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Frederick Pollock

#13. In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity Ch.2, 8

John Locke

#14. There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

#15. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Jordan Flaherty

#16. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

Owen Feltham

#17. Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

Ezra Stiles

#18. Political power does not rest with those who cast votes; political power rests with those who count votes.

Joseph Stalin

#19. All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#20. He was flooded with power - power like pain. When it rises beyond any possible point of pleasure - like victory. Like defeat, like hopelessness and hope. And he stayed there, for an eternity, balanced between all and nothing.
Like love when love is too much to bear.' - The Red Knight

Miles Cameron

#21. A Court of equity can mould interests differently from a Court of law; and can give relief in cases where a Court of law cannot.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Judicials of common [or general] equity are such as are made according to the law or instinct of nature common to all men: and these in respect of their substance, bind the consciences not only of the Jews but also of the Gentiles

William Perkins

#23. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Jesse Owens

#24. For taxpayers, however, it's [pay equity] a rip-off. And it has nothing to do with gender. Both men and women taxpayers will pay additional money to both men and women in the civil service. That's why the federal government should scrap its ridiculous pay equity law.

Stephen Harper

#25. And you, you make me feel like I could do the stupidest thing in the world, and you'd still like me how I am.

Kiera Cass

#26. I would like a bit of me - that's how I put my back out!

Derren Brown

#27. I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

David Alan Grier

#28. To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Ginni Rometty

#29. With you it is always the law, never equity.

Rafael Sabatini

#30. The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

August Krogh

#31. In general we should be aware of, and protective towards, those precious legal instruments that we already possess, and which often depend on principles of equity and natural law and not on top-down legislation.

Roger Scruton

#32. We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.

Christopher Hayes

#33. I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

Yara Shahidi

#34. The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

#35. That part of the judicial law which
was typical of Christ's government
has ceased, but that part which is of
common and general equity remains
still in force. It is a common maxim:
those judgments which are common
and natural are moral and perpetual.

Samuel Bolton

#36. There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.

John Howard

#37. The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Herbert Read

#38. Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Aristotle.

#39. If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Christina Stead

#40. Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#41. Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.

Aaron Hill