Legal Quotes

  • Adverse Inference – John H. Wigmore – Quote

    “It has always been understood – the inference, indeed, is one of the simplest in human experience – that a party’s falsehood or other fraud in the preparation and presentation of his cause, his fabrication or suppression of evidence by bribery or spoliation, and all similar conduct is receivable against him as an indication of…

  • Law Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

    “Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”~ Henry Ward Beecher “A Law is valuable not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.”~ Henry Ward Beecher “Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.”~ Henry Ward…

  • Judgment obtained by Fraud – American Jurisprudence Quote

    In American Jurisprudence, 2nd Edn., Vol. 46, para 825, it is stated:“Indeed, the connection of fraud with a judgment constitutes one of the chief causes for interference by a court of equity with the operation of a judgment. The power of courts of equity in granting such relief is inherent, and frequent applications for equitable…

  • Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer – Quotes

    1. About Justice Krishna Iyer Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (1915-201$) was a prominent Indian jurist, legal scholar and social reformer who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 1973 to 1980. He is widely regarded as a one of the most influential and progressive legal minds in post-independence India, known for…

  • Wills’ Circumstantial Evidence – Extract – Quote

    Sir Alfred Wills in his admirable book “Wills’ Circumstantial Evidence” (Chapter VI) lays down the following rules specially to be observed in the case of circumstantial evidence: (1) the facts alleged as the basis of any legal inference must be clearly proved and beyond reasonable doubt connected with the factum probandum; (2) the burden of…

  • Meaning of Bias

    A predisposition to decide for or against one party, without proper regard to the true merits of the dispute is bias. There must be reasonable apprehension of that predisposition. The reasonable apprehension must be based on cogent materials. Supreme CourtSecretary to the Govt, Transport Deptt Madras vs Munuswamy Mudaliar & Ors 1988 AIR 2232 Bias…

  • Meaning of Malice in Law

    “Legal malice” or “malice in law” means ‘something done without lawful excuse’. In other words, ‘it is an act done wrongfully and wilfully without reasonable or probable cause, and not necessarily an act done from ill feeling and spite’. It is a deliberate act in disregard of the rights of others’. [See Words and Phrases…


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