Wikiquote:Dictionary of Legal Quotations

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)===
 * Quotes reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. __-__. '''


 * /Section 01 - from Auditor to Legal Profession
 * /Section 02 - from Miscellaneous to Peerage
 * /Section 03 - from Practice of law to Transfer of Right of Action


 * Dictionary of Legal Quotations/Judges

To do

 * Bastardy
 * Club
 * Conveyance
 * Covenant
 * Demurrer
 * Domicil
 * Inns of Court
 * Interrogatories
 * Irregularity
 * Law reports
 * Legal profession*
 * Limitation
 * Miscellaneous
 * New Trial
 * Nonsuit
 * Notice to quit
 * Practice of law
 * Privilege
 * Privy Council
 * Process*
 * Prosecution*
 * Relief
 * Retainer (fees)*
 * Settlements
 * Solicitor and Client
 * Text Books
 * Transfer of right of Action

Done

 * Aggression
 * Admiralty
 * Affidavit
 * Administration of justice
 * Amendments (to Amendment of pleadings)
 * American decisions (into Foreign law)
 * Americans (into United States)
 * Amusements
 * Appeals*
 * Arbitration
 * Army (to Military)
 * Attorney-General (to Attorney general)
 * Attorneys (into Lawyers)
 * Auditor
 * 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
 * Cock-fighting (to Cockfight)
 * Coercion
 * Commerce (to Trade)
 * Common law
 * Companies
 * Compromises
 * Consent
 * Construction (to Judicial interpretation)
 * Contempt of court
 * Contract*
 * Corporations
 * Costs (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Counsel (to Legal counsel)
 * Court leet (into Courts)
 * Courts*
 * Criminal justice
 * Crown (to Monarchy)
 * Damages (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Day
 * Delay*
 * Dictum
 * Diligence
 * Discovery (to Discovery (law)
 * Discretion
 * Doctrine
 * Ecclesiastical (to Ecclesiology)
 * Edward Coke
 * Ejectment (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Equity*
 * Esquire
 * Estimate
 * Evidence*
 * Evil*
 * Executors (quote moved to Inheritance)
 * Family
 * Feasts (to Holidays)
 * Fiction (to Legal fiction)
 * Foreign law
 * Forfeiture (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Fraud*
 * Freedom of speech*
 * Freehold (into Property)
 * Gambling
 * Game (into Hunting)
 * Gazette (into Newspapers)
 * Government* (quote moved to Monarchy)
 * Highway
 * Honesty
 * Honours (into Honor)
 * Hostility
 * Husband and wife* (to Marriage)
 * Illegality (into Law)
 * Infant (to Minor (law))
 * Insanity
 * International law
 * Intoxication
 * Invention (to Authors)
 * Ireland
 * Judges*
 * Judgment* - only one quote, moved to Legal remedies
 * Judicial decisions* (to Judicial opinions)
 * Judicial proceedings* (to Legal proceedings)
 * Jurisdiction
 * Jury*
 * Justice*
 * Justification
 * Land
 * Law*
 * Libel (to Defamation)*
 * Liberty of the press* (to Freedom of the press)
 * Liberty of the subject* (to Liberty)
 * Literature (quotes moved to Authors)
 * Litigation (to Lawsuit)
 * Magic
 * Magistrates
 * Married woman* (to Marriage)
 * Master and servant (to Labor)
 * Matrimony* (to Marriage)
 * Minorities
 * 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
 * Payment into Court (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Peerage
 * Perjury
 * Pleadings
 * Politics*
 * Poor (to Poverty)*
 * Possession (to Ownership)
 * Precedents*
 * Presumption (to Presumptions)
 * Property*
 * Protection
 * Public Policy*
 * Public Servant (to Public trust)
 * Punishment*
 * Railway Company (to Rail transport)
 * Reasonable (into Reason)
 * Religion*
 * Reputation
 * Revenue (quotes moved to Taxation)
 * Reward
 * Rights*
 * Schoolmaster (into Teachers)
 * Scotland
 * Sheriff
 * Shipping (into Ships)
 * Sovereignty (to Monarchy)
 * Specific performance (by section in Legal remedies)
 * Statutes
 * Sunday
 * Time
 * Title (to Deed)
 * Tort (to Torts)*
 * Trade Union
 * 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)