 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges these with their fellowmen, have had a good... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs - 1922 - 686 sider
...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 sider
...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,...and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1911 - 568 sider
...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...and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed and unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have a good deal... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1911 - 608 sider
...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... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1913 - 62 sider
...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... | |
 | 1914 - 800 sider
...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... | |
 | 1914 - 1230 sider
...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... | |
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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,... 
