Portal:Law/Selected quotations/7

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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure – the figure of "The Reasonable Man".

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— A. P. Herbert, politician, law reformer and humorist, in Uncommon Law (1935)

Source

"A. P. Herbert" Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. by Elizabeth Knowles. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 22 September 2010 [1]