 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1890 - 470 páginas
...The law did not begin with a theory. It has never worked one out."(a) Its life has been not logic but experience. " The felt necessities of the time, the...avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges these with their fellowmen, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs - 1922 - 686 páginas
...Court of the United States, a philosopher in the realm of law, has said : "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience, the felt necessities...prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions and public policy avowed or unconscious * * * have had a great deal more to do than the syllogism in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1909 - 448 páginas
...system requires a particular result, but^ it is not all. The life of the law has not been logici.lt, has been experience. The felt necessities of the time,...determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1911 - 568 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1913 - 916 páginas
...cited with approval an American authority who declared that, " Even the prejudices which judges shared with their fellow-men have had a good deal more to...determining the rules by which men should be governed." As each one of the thousand barristers has a piece of the judge's ermine in his pocket, he lays the... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1913 - 62 páginas
...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... | |
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The life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men,... 
