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 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 pages
...there is a saying of Mr. Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1887 - 414 pages
...individual recognition than as the son of Oliver Wendall Holmes, asserts that the "life of the law lias not been logic, it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and politic«! theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs - 1922 - 686 pages
...Mr. Justice Holmes of the Supreme Court of the United States, a philosopher in the realm of law, has said : "The life of the law has not been logic; it...prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions and public policy avowed or unconscious * * * have had a great deal more to do than the syllogism in... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1911 - 568 pages
...the outset of his profound treatise on The Common Law (Lecture I, p. 1), " the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience. The felt...political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed and unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have a good deal more... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1911 - 608 pages
...were derived." And, as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., said in The Common Law: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the times, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1132 pages
...said Mr. Justice Holmes, in The Common Law, "are needed besides logic; for the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...political theories, — intuitions of public policy, — even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1913 - 62 pages
...there is a saying of Mr Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true : " The life of the law has not been logic ; it has been experience. The felt...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of^public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the^prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | 1914 - 800 pages
...there is a saying of Mr. Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | 1914 - 1230 pages
...there is a saying of Mr. Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true: " The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools. Meeting - 1923 - 704 pages
...but is influenced by society in equal measure. Upon this point I quote Mr. Justice Holmes, who says : "The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, institutions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
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