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Observations On The Law Of Evidence, Ezra Ripley Thayer

Michigan Law Review

Complaints of the administration of justice have been many of late, and the law of evidence has had its full share. Our profession ought to listen to such complaints with an open mind and a temper free from prejudice or irritation; and if we are honest with ourselves we may realize that it will take an effort to attain this serene and candid intellectual atmosphere. Conservatism is a natural and proper attribute of our profession. Law, as has been finely said, "embodies beliefs that have triumphed in the battle of ideas, and then have translated themselves into action; while there …