Wikiquote:Dictionary of Legal Quotations
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Following is a transcription of the quotes contained in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), a work in the public domain. These quotations need to be corrected, formatted and transferred to the appropriate entry or entries (some may be appropriate both for the the page of the author, and for a theme page).
Quotes may be cited as:
reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. __.
Or, if there is a large number of quotes, they may be moved as a block under a header:
===''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904)=== :<small>Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, ''The Dictionary of Legal Quotations'' (1904), p. __-__.</small>
- /Section 01 - from Abduction to Conveyance
- /Section 02 - from Demurrer to Land
- /Section 03 - from Law reports to Miscellaneous
- /Section 04 - from New trial to Prosecution
- /Section 05 - from Reasonable to Transfer of Right of Action
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- Abduction (Kidnapping)
- Admissions
- Affidavit
- Amendments
- Arbitration
- Attorney-General
- Auditor
- Bastardy
- Club
- Cock-fighting
- Coercion
- Companies
- Conveyance
- Counsel
- Covenant
- Demurrer
- Discovery
- Domicil
- Ecclesiastical
- Fiction
- Freehold
- Game
- Gazette
- Highway
- Honours
- Hostility
- Illegality
- Infant
- Inns of Court
- Interrogatories
- Irregularity
- Judicial decisions*
- Judicial proceedings (process)*
- Justification
- Land
- Law reports
- Legal profession*
- Limitation
- Litigation
- Master and servant
- Minorities
- Miscellaneous
- New Trial
- Nonsuit
- Notice to quit
- Peerage
- Perjury
- Possession
- Practice
- Privilege
- Privy Council
- Process*
- Prosecution*
- Reasonable
- Relief
- Retainer (fees)*
- Revenue
- Reward
- Schoolmaster
- Settlements
- Sheriff
- Shipping
- Solicitor and Client
- Sunday
- Text Books
- Tort*
- Trade Union
- Transfer of right of Action
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- Aggression
- Admiralty
- Corporations
- Costs (by section in Legal remedies)
- Damages (by section in Legal remedies)
- Diligence
- Ejectment (by section in Legal remedies)
- Forfeiture (by section in Legal remedies)
- Payment into Court (by section in Legal remedies)
- Specific performance (by section in Legal remedies)
- Administration of justice
- American decisions (into Foreign law)
- Americans (into United States)
- Amusements
- Appeals*
- Army (to Military)
- Attorneys (into Lawyers)
- Author (Authors)
- Banker (into Banking)
- Bankruptcy
- Bible
- Bill of lading (into Contract)
- Bill of sale (into Contract)
- Blasphemy
- Books
- Cases*
- Chancery
- Character
- Charity
- Christianity
- Clergy
- Commerce (to Trade)
- Common law
- Compromises
- Consent
- Construction (to Judicial interpretation)
- Contempt of court
- Contract*
- Court leet (into Courts)
- Courts*
- Criminal justice
- Crown (to Monarchy)
- Day
- Delay*
- Dictum
- Discretion
- Doctrine
- Edward Coke
- Equity*
- Esquire
- Estimate
- Evidence*
- Evil*
- Executors (quote moved to Inheritance)
- Family
- Feasts (to Holidays)
- Foreign law
- Fraud*
- Freedom of speech*
- Gambling
- Government* (quote moved to Monarchy)
- Honesty
- Husband and wife* (to Marriage)
- Insanity
- International law
- Intoxication
- Invention (to Authors)
- Ireland
- Judges*
- Judgment* - only one quote, moved to Legal remedies
- Jurisdiction
- Jury*
- Justice*
- Law*
- Libel (to Defamation)*
- Liberty of the press* (to Freedom of the press)
- Liberty of the subject* (to Liberty)
- Literature (quotes moved to Authors)
- Magic
- Magistrates
- Married woman* (to Marriage)
- Matrimony* (to Marriage)
- Mischief
- Mistakes
- Money*
- Morals* (to Morality)
- Motives* (to Motivation)
- Name
- Naturalization (to Citizenship)
- Navy
- Necessity*
- Obiter dicta (to Dictum)
- Opening speech (to Opening statement)
- Pardon
- Parent and Child (quotes distributed to Fathers, Mothers, Family, Parenting, Children)
- Parliament
- Pleadings
- Politics*
- Poor (to Poverty)*
- Precedents*
- Presumption (to Presumptions)
- Property*
- Protection
- Public Policy*
- Public Servant (to Public trust)
- Punishment*
- Railway Company (to Rail transport)
- Religion*
- Reputation
- Rights*
- Scotland
- Sovereignty (to Monarchy)
- Statutes
- Time
- Title (to Deed)
- Trespass
- Trial for Life (to Capital punishment)
- Truth
- Universities
- Usage (to Customs)
- Usury*
- Virtue
- Voting (to Elections)
- War*
- Woman*
- Words*
- Witness* (to Witnesses)
- Will (to Wills)
