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" The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off.... "
The Theory and Principles of Tort Law - Page iii
by Thomas A. Street - 1999 - 500 pages
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 84

Law - 1917 - 510 pages
...Blackstone's day, nor even of our immediate forefathers. As expressed by Mr. Justice Holmes,5 our common law "is always approaching and never reaching consistency....principles from life at one end, and it always retains the old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been sloughed off. It will be entirely consistent...
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Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the ..., Volume 25, Part 1908

Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 308 pages
...it has been, and what it tends to become." And the same learned jurist also said of the Common Law : "The law is always approaching and never reaching...old ones from history at the other, which have not been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow." (The...
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Life Sketches of Eminent Lawyers, American, English and Canadian ..., Volume 2

Gilbert John Clark - Law - 1895 - 434 pages
...English since the publication of Sir Henry Maine's 'Ancient Law.' " The Law Inconsistent Because Growing. "The law is always approaching and never reaching,...entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow." — "The Common Law," p. 36. Force Is at the Bottom of All Private Relations and the State. "It seems...
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Results and perspectives in particle physics

1904 - 512 pages
...function of the courts, as just explained, it would be useful, as we shall see more clearly further on. which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off....entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow." How much truer is this of constitutional law. I once met an eminent judge of one of our highest courts...
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The American Judiciary

Simeon Eben Baldwin - Law - 1905 - 428 pages
...but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis. . . . The truth is that the law is always approaching and never reaching consistency....become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. Courts enter on a dangerous ground when, to justify their action, they rely on any rule of public policy...
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The American Judiciary

Simeon Eben Baldwin - Law - 1905 - 538 pages
...but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis. . . . The truth is that the law is always approaching and never reaching consistency....have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will beconje entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. Courts enter on a dangerous ground when, to...
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The Common Law

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Common law - 1909 - 448 pages
...the law to reside in the elegantia juris, or logical cohesion of part with part. The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching,...become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. The study upon which we have been engaged is necessary both for the knowledge and for the revision...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Kansas Conference of ..., Volume 8

Criminals - 1910 - 586 pages
...subject. Speaking generally of law, that is to say, the general law of the land, it may be said that it is always approaching and never reaching consistency....become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. A step in the right direction is the suspension of sentence and parole law enacted by the last legislature....
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The Canadian Law Times, Volume 32

Law - 1912 - 1024 pages
...begun by Lord Blackburn. Thomas Atkins Street, LL.B., Jurist. 6. The law is always approaching, but never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting...become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. Justice 0. W. Holmes. The attitude taken by His Lordship, Fletcher Moulton, in Jones v. Huiton, doubtless...
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The Canadian Law Times, Volume 32

Law - 1912 - 1020 pages
...Atkins Street, LL.B., Jurist. 6. The law is always approaching, but never reaching, con- " sistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at...become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow. Justice 0. W. Holmes. The attitude taken by His Lordship, Fletcher Moulton, in Jones v. Hutton, doubtless...
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