Frederick Pollock
Frederick Pollock
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC was an English jurist best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth10 December 1845
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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
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A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous