Quote of the Day: "The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasisovereign that can be identified." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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Quote of the Day: “Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.” John Locke (English philosopher)
Quote of the Day: "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins." John Locke (English philosopher)
Quote of the Day: “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Quote of the Day: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been reason." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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"Reason is the life of the law: nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law which is the perfection of reason." Sir Edward Coke (Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales)
Quote of the Day: “The Common Law of England has very laboriously been built about a mythical figure of ‘the reasonable man’. An Act of God has been defined as ‘something which no reasonable man could have expected.” A. P. Herbert
Quote of the Day: "The Common Law of England has very laboriously been built about a mythical figure of 'the reasonable man'. An Act of God has been defined as 'something which no reasonable man could have expected." A. P. Herbert
Quote of the Day: “Law is a bottomless pit.” Dr John Arbuthnot
Quote of the Day: "Law is a bottomless pit." Dr John Arbuthnot
Quote of the Day: “A liar should have a good memory.” Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Quote of the Day: "A liar should have a good memory." Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
What is a “prima facie” case? A (very) brief explanation
On 24 January 2022, the High Court of Malaya ruled that a "prima facie" case had been established against Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (DPM). So what is a "prima facie" case? This is (very) a brief explanation. Cambridge Dictionary defines "prima facie" as: "adjective, based on what seems to … Continue reading What is a “prima facie” case? A (very) brief explanation
Quote of the Day: “There’s no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.” Jean Giraudoux
Quote of the Day: "There's no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth." Jean Giraudoux
Quote of the Day: “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote of the Day: "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower
