Legal Force Quotes

In reality there are two, and only two, foundations of law; and they are both of them conditions without which nothing can give it any force: I mean equity and utility.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Silence coerced by law—the argument of force in its worst form.

Law, without force, is impotent.

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.