LAW in Classic Quotes

1  In your case, the law remains rigid.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

2  I don't know of any law that says they can't talk.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

3  Calpurnia said, "Because you ain't familiar with the law."

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

4  Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

5  The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

6  She reckons she's carried out the law just gettin their names on the roll and runnin em here the first day.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  In Maycomb County, hunting out of season was a misdemeanor at law, a capital felony in the eyes of the populace.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

8  Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice, from long years of observation.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

9  He was a man learned in the law, and although he seemed to take his job casually, in reality he kept a firm grip on any proceedings that came before him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

10  Miss Stephanie Crawford said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law, and we believed her, because Mr. Radley's posture was ramrod straight.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Atticus's office was in the courthouse when he began his law practice, but after several years of it he moved to quieter quarters in the Maycomb Bank building.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

12  Tom was twenty-five years of age; he was married with three children; he had been in trouble with the law before: he once received thirty days for disorderly conduct.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

13  It's against the law, all right," said my father, "and it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

14  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30

16  They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1