Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

The Crown cannot ever be prejudiced by the misconduct or negligence of any of its officers.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

You need not cite cases that are familiar.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

In a perfectly new case—a case altogether primae impressionis—I think the Judges are bound to hold fast to the principles of the common law—to remember the maxim, "Salus reipublicae suprema lex," and if the condition be really in principle against the public good, to pronounce it in their judgment void.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

You have no right, for the purpose of justifying a libel, to inquire into a man's life and opinions.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

I remember Lord Eldon saying to counsel, " You have told us how far the cases have gone, will you now tell us where they are to stop?" I think it is now time that we should say where the cases are to stop.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

Judges are philologists of the highest order.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

In criminal cases you always begin by proving the corpus delicti, and then connect the prisoner with it.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

The rule is this: that wherever there is a decision of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction, the other Courts will adopt that as the basis of their decision, provided it can be appealed from. If it cannot be appealed from, then they will exercise their own judgment.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

International law, like the moral law, is part of the law of England, but only to the extent that the Courts will not help those that break it.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

Arguments from the American statute are not of much force, because Englishmen are not bound to know it.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet

Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability.

— Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet