 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 pages
...Mr. Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time,...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... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1887 - 414 pages
...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 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
...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 of the 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 - 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 - 1911 - 568 pages
...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 necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed and unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1132 pages
...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 of the 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) - 1913 - 62 pages
...Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true : " The life of the law has not been logic ; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time,...prevalent moral and political theories, intentions of^public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the^prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men,... | |
 | 1914 - 1238 pages
...Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true : " The life of the law has not been logic ; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time,...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... | |
 | Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1914 - 30 pages
...Mr. Justice Wendell Holmes which is profoundly true: The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time,...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... | |
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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,... 
