Comparison between various civil law and private law institutions.
God has given you two ears. Hear both sides.
At the root of legal obligation is the fact that certain rules are accepted and used as standards of conduct.
The common law does not work from pre-established truths of universal and inflexible validity to conclusions derived from them deductively.
To every subject of this land, however powerful, I would use Thomas Fuller's words over 300 years ago: 'Be you never so high, the law is above you.
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
Who then, in law, is my neighbour? The answer seems to be persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation.
LORD DENNING (Master of the Rolls, England)
