Legal Documents Quotes

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The most invigorating form of reading matter is, of course, a will.

Read your contracts. Up and down, left and right.

Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

Nobody gets security from a piece of paper.

Never trust people; always trust paper. I'd marry a piece of paper if I could.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

There's so much paperwork that goes with changing a name.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

If I told my wife I was going to become a manager she'd say 'sign this then. Don't worry it's only a divorce. Au revoir'.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

The U. S. Code of Federal Regulations is over 170 thousand ages long.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Even legal documents are of little value if there is not behind them the force of public opinion and public approval.

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients' problems.