Edward Jenks Quotes
Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.
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.
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.
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
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.
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.
