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Khudoi mir luchshe dobroy ssory. (Russian)
— Lawsuit
Khudoi mir luchshe dobroy ssory. (Russian)
A piece of paper blown by the wind among lawyers must in the end be drawn out again by two oxen.
Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.
"Lawsuit mania"… a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.
O Spirit of litigation, know, Too large to be contained by reason
Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody.
Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.
As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
Englishmen may have been law-abiding, but they have not been unlitigious.
Though every attempt to shorten litigation is entitled to the favour of the Court,1 yet before we stop a party in a regular course of proceeding, we ought to be certain that we shall not deprive him of that justice which the law authorizes him to seek.
The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable.
Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.
Expedit reipublicie ut sit finis litium: It is for the public good that there be an end of litigation.
Debet estefinit litium: There ought to be an end of law suits.
