 The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.  Monthly Labor Review - Page 8921966Full view - About this book
 | Barbara A. Holmes - 2000 - 180 pages
...theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share The law embodies the story of a nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.7 Pragmatism in a legal context assumes that the... | |
 | Kevin Crotty - 2001 - 266 pages
...character of poetry emerges once traditional beliefs 30. Oliver Wendell Holmes, for example, wrote, "The law embodies the story of a nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law, ed. Mark... | |
 | George P. Fletcher - 2003 - 308 pages
...fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries... . s The absolute logic of abolition led one side to die for one ideal. The logic of independence and... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - 2002 - 308 pages
...experience of vast numbers of people: The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. . . . The law embodies the story of a nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.14 Holmes did not deny that there was logic in... | |
 | Jenny Bourne (Professor of Economics), Jenny Bourne Wahl - 1998 - 302 pages
...even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men . . . [determine] the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries. ... In order to know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. - Oliver... | |
 | Allen D. Spiegel - 2002 - 414 pages
...from an exposed dangerous site at Fort Stevens during the Civil War, commented in an 1881 lecture: "The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries." In 1893, Woodrow Wilson made a similar point during a lecture at Princeton University: "Law is the... | |
 | Christian Smith - 2003 - 500 pages
...logic" (Holmes 1 897) . Holmes wrote, "The life of law has not been logic: it has been experience. . . . The law embodies the story of a nation's development...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics." And Holmes saw in legal formalism the religious... | |
 | Bryan Horrigan - 2003 - 392 pages
...been logic: it has been experience ... The law embodies the story of a nation's development through centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES American jurist, 1881 19... | |
 | David Boucher - 2004 - 214 pages
...fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics'. As the distinguished writer whom I have quoted... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 pages
...their fellow men, have a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of...and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. Holmes claimed, "The substance of the law at any... | |
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