 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,...  The Canadian Law Times - Page 7711914Full view - About this book
 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1887 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 470 pages
...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 prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges these with their... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs - 1922 - 686 pages
...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...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions and public policy avowed or unconscious * * * have had a great deal more to do than the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Common law - 1909 - 448 pages
...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, the. prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - Fraud - 1911 - 568 pages
...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...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed and unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Charles Warren - Courts - 1911 - 608 pages
...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 - Torts - 1912 - 1132 pages
...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...time, — the prevalent moral and political theories, — intuitions of public policy, — even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - Law - 1913 - 62 pages
...as that of Chief- Justice Holt in Coggs v. Bernard, of Chief- Justice Pratt in Armory v. Delamirie, and of Lord Mansfield when he defined the count for...prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of^public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the^prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men,... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - Nationalism - 1914 - 56 pages
...as that of Chief- Justice Holt in Coggs v. Bernard, of Chief- Justice Pratt in Armory v. Delamirie, and of Lord Mansfield when he defined the count for...even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 800 pages
...history a curious one. Looking first at the early English common law its most striking feature is tlie enormous extent to which its founders concerned themselves...even the prejudices which judges share with their fellowmen, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men... | |
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