But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful career of …

- Edward Jenks

It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man wa…

- Edward Jenks

The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly betwee…

- Edward Jenks

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no ex…

- Edward Jenks

Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with the workin…

- Edward Jenks

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

- Edward Jenks

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

- Edward Jenks

Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men'…

- Edward Jenks

But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations o…

- Edward Jenks