 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1901 - 780 pages
...what properly have been called the oracles of the law. Far the most important and pretty nearly tlte whole meaning of every new effort of legal thought is to make these prophecies more precife, and to t1enerali:e them into a thoroughly connected system. The process is one, from a lawyer's... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1902 - 878 pages
...of decisions is a plain fallacy. Mr. Justice Holmes says all that need be said on this subject : v " The means of the study are a body of reports, of treatises...reasonable time. It is a great mistake to be frightened by the ever-increasing number of reports." (Harv. Law Rev., Vol. X, pp. 457-8.) THE RELATION OF CLASSIFICATION... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 392 pages
...cases in which the axe will fall. These are what properly have been called the oracles of the law. Far the most important and pretty nearly the whole...generalize them into a thoroughly connected system. The process is one, from a lawyer's statement of a case, eliminating as it does all the dramatic elements... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1920 - 330 pages
...things he will be made to suffer in this or that way by judgment of the court; and so of a legal right. The number of our predictions when generalized and...reasonable time. It is a great mistake to be frightened by the everincreasing number of reports. The reports of a given jurisdiction in the course of a generation... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1920 - 354 pages
...cases in which the axe will fall. These are what properly have been called the oracles of the law. Far the most important and pretty nearly the whole...generalize them into a thoroughly connected system. The process is one, from a lawyer's statement of a case, eliminating as it does all the dramatic elements... | |
 | 1920 - 782 pages
...cases in which the axe will fall. These are what properly have been called the oracles of the law. For the most important and pretty nearly the whole meaning...effort of legal thought is to make these prophecies most precise and to generalize them in a thoroughly connected system.'' (American Bar Association Journal,... | |
 | 1943 - 396 pages
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 | 1949 - 400 pages
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In these sibylline leaves are gathered the scattered prophecies of the past upon the cases in which the axe will fall. These are what properly have been called the oracles of the law. Far the most important and pretty nearly the whole meaning of every... 
