Legal Binding Quotes

If confirmed to the D.C. Circuit, I would follow Roe v. Wade faithfully and fully. That would be binding precedent of the court. It's been decided by the Supreme Court.

When we signed to G-Unit, 50 made us sign the paper that says, 'You can't talk about nothing about me.' He makes everybody sign that.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

When you sign a contract, you must respect that.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

No one signs a contact saying they will always start.

You can't sign just any contract.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept.

If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.

Someone who signs a contract must respect it.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

The next week she withheld my paycheck until I signed a document (drafted by David) in which I promised not to marry Connor. Ever. I signed the document, took the check, and had David draft another document forbidding all Spellmans to practice any form of blackmail. David tried to explain to me that a contract in which you promise not to break the law is ultimately redundant, but I didn't care.

I've found that most people who are bound together legally would be a damn sight happier together -or apart -if they were released from the contract. A man-woman relationship is physical and emotional, not legal.

Marriage is the trickiest and most basic contract that we have.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

With a written agreement you have a prayer; with a verbal agreement you have nothing but air.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

The prenup needs to be drawn up months before the wedding, not days - it's not something you slap together and sign in the car on the way to the ceremony. A shotgun prenup might not hold up in court.