 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
 | Association of American Law Schools. Meeting - Law - 1923 - 704 pages
...but is influenced by society in equal measure. Upon this point I quote Mr. Justice Holmes, who says : "The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, institutions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Labor laws and legislation - 1966 - 806 pages
...their ability and other factors, would have been kept at work the court 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 of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers - Political science - 1921 - 598 pages
...Methods in Due Process Cases," American Political Science Review, May, 1918. "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...time, the prevalent moral and political theories; institutions of public policy, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had... | |
 | William V. Rowe - Law - 1921 - 26 pages
...Holmes, in his lectures of a generation ago on "The Common Law."8 He then wrote: "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,... | |
 | Charles Warren - Law - 1922 - 582 pages
...has said : "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, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - American literature - 1926 - 630 pages
...which seems equally possible and effective. As Mr. Justice Holmes has put it: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities...time, the prevalent moral and political theories, . . . even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do... | |
 | Dorsey Richardson - Constitutional law - 1924 - 120 pages
...the great law giver, and law flowing from any other source will not endure: 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, avowed or unconscious, even prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men,... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1924 - 610 pages
...the great law giver, and law flowing from any other source will not endure: 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, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | Lloyd Paul Stryker - Law - 1932 - 272 pages
...performance of which the judge might well recall the words of Mr. Justice Holmes: "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, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
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