法律英语口语900句 （7）：Law

1.a later statute takes away the effect of a prior one.

2.arms and laws do not flourish together.

3.consent makes law.

4.custom has the force of law.

5.customs,religions and philosophies tend to form the basis for a nation's laws

6.equity is a correction of common legal rules in their defective parts.

7.except as otherwise provided by law.

8.every law has a loop hole.

9.every law has no atom of strength,as far as no public opinion supports in.

10.in civilized life,law floats in a sea of ethics.

11.it can hardly be taken to be a guarantee

that every law shall treet every person the same.

12.law can never be enforced unless fear supports it.

13.law does not compel a man to do what he is impossible to perform.4.law governs man,reason the law.

15.law is a pervasive feature of social life that profoundly affects us.

16.law is an exercise in communication between authority and the public.

17.law is an ordinance of reason for the common good.

18.law is an utterance determined by the common consent of the commonwealth.

19.law is both an instrument of change and a result of changes.

20.law is established for the benefit of man.

21.law is law,just or not.

22.law is mind without reason.

23.law is order,and good law is good order.

24.law is the crystallization of the habit and thought of society.

25.law is the science of what is good and just.

26.law must be stable and it cannot stand still.

27.law that is deficient is better than law that is uncertain.28.laws are made to prevent the stronger from having the power to do everything.

29.laws are gentle are seldom obeyed;too severe,seldom executed.

30.no,crime without law making it so;no penalty without law making it so.

31.no one is above the law.

32.one with the law is a majority.

33.scarcely any law can be made which is beneficial to all;but if it benefits the majority it is useful.

34.substantial law defined rights,and procedural law establishes the procedures by which rights are protected and enforced.

35.the definition of law depends on how we look at its purposes or funcitons.

36.the end of law is not abolish or restrain,but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

37.the first of all laws is to respect the laws.

38.the law cannot make all men equal,but they are all equal before the law.

39.the law does not concern itself about family trifles.

40.the law holds no man responsible for the act of god.

41.the law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life.