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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
George Will
Life
Game
Respect
Law
Important
Distilled
Rules
Ancient
Rather
Unchanged
Purpose
Most
Judges
Opponents
Unwritten
Than
Just
Common
The Most Important
Common Law
Decisions
Show
Derives
Baseball
Codes
Christianity is part of the common law.
James Wilson
Law
Christianity
Part
Common
Common Law
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
Life
Law
Nothing
Else
Perfection
Itself
Common
Common Law
Which
Reason
Nay
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
Elizabeth Strout
Class
Book
Law
Sit
Would
Small
Read
Fit
Common
Literally
Common Law
Which
Right
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.
Frederick Pollock
Law
Assumed
Following
More
Equity
Than
Any
Common
Whenever
Cannot
Common Law
Converse
Agreed
Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
Frederick Pollock
Wise
Law
Old
Our
Though
Telling
Something
She
Learn
Knows
Still
Very
Common
Lady
Common Law
Old Lady
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
Jonathan Turley
Life
You
Obligation
Law
Duty
Rule
Danger
Rules
Says
Responsible
Would
Cost
Someone
Risk
More
Were
Controversial
Common
Common Law
Placing
Little
Them
Rescue
Help
Even
Save
Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Matthew Hale
Law
Christianity
Part
Common
Common Law
England
At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.
Michael Ealy
Life
Day
Every Day
Law
End Of The Day
My Life
First
Lost
Every
Fatigue
Definitely
Out
Factor
Couple
Couple Years
Well
Years
End
Just
Common
Want
Anything
Crash
Common Law
Hard
Season
Thing
Last
Sleep
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
Michael Gove
Law
Abandonment
Slow
Our
Lies
Seem
Greater
Traditions
May
Hanging
Common
Common Law
Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
Samuel Freeman Miller
Law
Other
State
France
States
Civil
Laws
Mainly
New
Napoleon
Were
Existence
New One
Commenced
Louisiana
Common
Common Law
Which
Code
Founded
Her
Differing
The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
Ted Olson
Rights
Law
Older
Society
Back
Marry
Vital
Because
Than
Goes
Common
Common Law
Bill
Bill Of Rights
Right
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