"The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly between 1150 and 1250, must be shared between the officials of the royal Chancery, who framed new forms, and the royal judges, who either allowed them or quashed them."

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Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

Edward Jenks

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“Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.”
“I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.”
“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”

Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”
“I don't have any shame.”
“What looks large from a distance, close up ainâ€™t never that big.”
“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.”
“What a dull world if we knew all about geese!”

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