Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
--Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation
which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
--Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test,
1984
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
--H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
--Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974), Goldwyn's Law of Contracts
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
--Unknown
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the
poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal
bread.
--Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
"And
if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good."
(Romans 7:16) Trapped in a spiral of legal angst, even Alan Shore
realizes, at some base level, that he can't keep flouting the law
then turning to it for guidance. He hates rules, ironic since somewhere
in his soul he loves the ideal of the law. He also hates himself.
Most times he demonstrates an ambivalence toward the ethical side
of the law. But he also realizes that there are eventual consequences
to the path that he has chosen. He realizes the kind of man that
he is, and more critically, the kind of man he isn't, and part of
the drama is seeing whether or not he keeps treading water where
he is or if he decides to grow. --Maurice
Broaddus
LAW
a rule of action.
What the Bible says
(1.) The Law of Nature
is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral difference
of things, and discoverable by natural light (Romans 1:20; Romans
2:14-15). This law binds all men at all times. It is generally designated
by the term conscience, or the capacity of being influenced by the
moral relations of things.
(2.) The Ceremonial Law
prescribes under the Old Testament the rites and ceremonies of worship.
This law was obligatory only till Christ, of whom these rites were
typical, had finished his work (Hebrews 7:9, 11; Hebrews 10:1; Ephes.
2:16). It was fulfilled rather than abrogated by the gospel.
(3.) The Judicial Law,
the law which directed the civil policy of the Hebrew nation.
(4.) The Moral Law is
the revealed will of God as to human conduct, binding on all men
to the end of time. It was promulgated at Sinai. It is perfect (Psalm
19:7), perpetual (Matthew 5:17-18), holy (Romans 7:12), good, spiritual
(Romans 7:14), and exceeding broad (Psalm 119:96). Although binding
on all, we are not under it as a covenant of works (Galatians 3:17).
(5.) Positive Laws are
precepts founded only on the will of God. They are right because
God commands them.
(6.) Moral positive laws
are commanded by God because they are right.
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