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1994

Mercer Law Review

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Torts, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, Charles R. Adams Iii Dec 1994

Torts, Cynthia Trimboli Adams, Charles R. Adams Iii

Mercer Law Review

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.
—William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 2, sc. 3 (Signet Classic ed., Signet Books 1963) (1606).

Macbeth may have feigned this plight as he covered up his foul murder of King Duncan, but it precisely describes the survey writer's dilemma. Some of the legal theories advanced in survey period cases were as arcane as the contents of the witches' cauldron. Some of the holdings were as unsettling as Banquo's ghost at the feast? And, as always, the accumulation of cases was as inexorable as Birnam Wood's …