 | 1916 - 948 strani
...ability of the world." M — "To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death." M — "The law has got to be stated over again; and I venture...which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago." M No other ever better exemplified the proper use of history as John Morley defined it: "I want to... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - 1892 - 590 strani
...the same manner have come about the reforms in the laws relating to married women, by which a whole to say that in fifty years we shall have it in a form...which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago." sex has been emancipated. According to the old English theory, a woman was a chattel, all of whose... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1910 - 1118 strani
...IDEALS VOICED AND EXEMPLIFIED FOR OUR PROFESSION AND OF MANY TOKENS OF KINDNESS SHOWN TO THE AUTHOR " The law has got to be stated over again. And I venture...which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago." Justice Oliver Wendtll Holmes, Oration before the Harvard Law School Association, at Cambridge, 1SS6.... | |
 | 1918 - 1048 strani
...philosophical speculation, a thousand heads are analyzing and generalizing the rules of the law and the ground on which they stand. The law has got to be stated...of which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago. This is an ominous prophecy and presents a very serious thought. All history agrees that it was the... | |
 | 1923 - 582 strani
...work. Let us strive at least to give to the future as great a gift as we have inherited from the past. The law has got to be stated over again ; and I venture...of which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago. — Mr. Justice Holmes, at Cambridge, Mass., on the 250th Anniversary of Harvard University, November... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 746 strani
...said in a notable address : The law has got to be stated over again, and I venture to say that in 50 years we shall have it in a form of which no man could have dreamed 50 years ago. Coming back to our proposed reform of equity in labor-injunction cases, I will quote... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1928 - 970 strani
...said in a notable address : Tlie law has got to be stated over again, and I venture to say that in 50 years we shall have it in a form of which no man could hnve dreamed 50 years ago. Coming back to our proposed reform of equity in labor-injunction cases,... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1917 - 312 strani
...philosophical speculation, a thousand heads are analyzing and generalizing the rules of the law and the ground on which they stand. The law has got to be stated...which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago." This is an ominous prophecy and presents a very serious thought. All history agrees that it was the... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1888 - 1120 strani
...heads are analysing and generalizing the rules of law and the grounds on which they stand. The lawlias got to be stated over again, and I venture to say...which no man could have dreamed fifty years ago." We can do a further service by a judicious iconoclasm in regard to the Blackstone Jctich. Blackstone's... | |
 | Robert Watson Gordon - 1992 - 342 strani
...Collected Legal Papers, 49, and OWH, "Privilege, Malice, and Intent," in Collected Legal Papers, 117. 172. "The law has got to be stated over again, and I venture...shall have it in a form of which no man could have dreamt fifty years ago"; "Harvard Celebration Speech," 1 20. 173. "It is the merit of the common law... | |
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Germany, science is gradually drawing legal history into its sphere. The facts are being scrutinized by eyes microscopic in intensity and panoramic in scope. At the same time, under the influence of our revived interest in philosophical speculation, a... 
