Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet Quotes

We are oblig'd therefore, by promises proceeding from fear, except the Civill Law forbid them, by vertue whereof, that which is promised becomes unlawfull.

The agreement of the parties, the essence of every rational contract, is indispensably required.

Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

As long as they're willing to pay to prove it, I'm willing to let them.

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Make no contracts that will bind me.

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

In the absence of relative equality - quid pro quo - a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If I give you a dollar, and you give me a mansion, our contract would lack quid pro quo.

You never forget a trade.

Someone who signs a contract must respect it.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

If something concrete and meaty is offered to me from Kapil's side, I will definitely do it.

I don't sign contracts on a whim.

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.

Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you

I do know how to treat people and that is treat them the way I want to be treated. So when I extend that respect and that consideration that I would like to have, there is a certain amount of reciprocating. Some of the senators have even said words to the effect to me of "I can't dislike you as much as I wish that I did".

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.