Legal Customs

Famous quotes containing the words legal and/or customs:

    In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
    Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)