Law Moot Court

Famous quotes containing the words law, moot and/or court:

    While the system of holding people in hostage is as old as the oldest war, a fresher note is introduced when a tyrannic state is at war with its own subjects and may hold any citizen in hostage with no law to restrain it.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
    But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
    Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)