“In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.”
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“No tort is assignable, in law or equity. It is not within any species of action at common law.”
4 Burr. Part. IV., 2386.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)
“The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 17, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, st. 8.
Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.
Sixth Day, Third Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
As quoted in "A Beautiful Child" in Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote
“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”
"Lowside of the Road", Mule Variations (1999).
“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”
Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44
Quoted by Stobaeus
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