English Law Quotes

• El gran principio de la ley inglesa es hacer negocios por sí misma.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Principles, Bleak House

  Bleak House cap. 39 (1853)

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• El gran principio de la ley inglesa es hacer negocios para sí misma. No existe otro principio que se mantenga de forma clara, segura y coherente en todos sus estrechos giros.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Principles, Bleak House

  1852-3 Bleak House, cap. 39.

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• The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

  William Murray, I Conde de Mansfield

  War, Law, Islands

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• The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.

  Charles Dickens

  Pensamiento, Luz, Ley

  1852-3 Bleak House, cap. 39.

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• It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Long, Steps

  Edward Jenks (1922). "Breve Historia del Derecho Inglés: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919".

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• It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Roots, Long

  Edward Jenks (1922). "Breve Historia del Derecho Inglés: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919".

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• If we claim heritage in Bacon, Shakespeare and Milton, we also acknowledge that it was for liberties guaranteed Englishmen by sacred charters our fathers triumphantly fought. While wisely rejecting throne and caste and privilege and an Established Church in their new-born state, they adopted the substance of English liberty and the body of English law.

  Chauncey Depew

  Father, Law, Church

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). "Oración y discursos conmemorativos"

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• The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Source, Process

  Edward Jenks (1922). "Breve Historia del Derecho Inglés: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919".

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• In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Work, Animal

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• Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

  John Millington Synge

  Law, Pirate, World

  1907 The Playboy of the Western World, act 2.

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• Lo que el trabajador vende no es directamente su Trabajo, sino su Fuerza de Trabajo, cuya disposición temporal hace al capitalista. Tanto es así, que no sé si la ley inglesa, pero ciertamente algunas leyes continentales, fijan el tiempo máximo durante el cual se permite a un hombre vender su fuerza de trabajo. Si se le permitiera hacerlo por cualquier período indefinido, la esclavitud sería inmediatamente restaurada. Tal venta, si comprendiera toda su vida, por ejemplo, lo convertiría de inmediato en esclavo vitalicio de su empleador.

  Karl Marx

  Trabajo, Hombres, Ley

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). "Filosofía socialista alemana", Continuum Intl Pub Group.

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• My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

  Garrison Keillor

  Law, America, England

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 30 Mar. 1990

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• Y aprovecho esta oportunidad para declarar que... Me opondré hasta el día de mi muerte, con todos los poderes y facultades que Dios me ha dado, a todos los instrumentos de esclavitud, por un lado, y de villanía, por el otro, como lo es esta orden de asistencia. Me parece el peor instrumento de poder arbitrario, el más destructivo de la libertad inglesa y de los principios fundamentales de la ley, que jamás se haya encontrado en un libro de leyes inglés.

  James Otis

  Libro, Oportunidad, Manos

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". Discurso de James Otis (febrero de 1761), citado en William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• Las leyes inglesas castigan el vicio; las chinas hacen más, premian la virtud.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Divertido, Humor, Derecho

  Oliver Goldsmith (1794). “The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friend in the East”, p.33

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• If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

  Learned Hand

  Law, Liberty, Littles

  "United States v. Di Re". Judicial opinion, 1947.

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• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Law

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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• English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.

  Karl Marx

  Years, Law, Two

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