 | Clarence Morris - 1971 - 582 pages
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 | Clarence Morris - 1971 - 588 pages
...permission of The Harvard Law Review. 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... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro - 1987 - 1160 pages
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 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1946 - 550 pages
...he will be made to suffer in this or that way by judgment of the court; — and so of a legal right. finite body of dogma which may be mastered within...reasonable time. It is a great mistake to be frightened by the ever-increasing number of reports. The reports of a given jurisdiction in the course of a generation... | |
 | James Anthony Whitson - 1991 - 328 pages
...of a 'fact situation' which the law constructs from those events in giving them their legal meaning: Far the most important and pretty nearly the whole...meaning of every new effort of legal thought is to make [predictive inferences from past law] more precise. The process is one, from a lawyer's statement of... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 pages
...place in the legal order. This will make the system more teachable, knowable, and easily applicable. "Far the most important, and pretty nearly the whole...generalize them into a thoroughly connected system"; OWH, "The Path of the Law," in Collected Legal Papers, 1 68 . It is not easy to reconcile this position... | |
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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... 
