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Book Reviews, Paul H. Douglas (Reviewer), Cecil Sims (Reviewer), Ray Forrester (Reviewer)
Book Reviews, Paul H. Douglas (Reviewer), Cecil Sims (Reviewer), Ray Forrester (Reviewer)
Vanderbilt Law Review
Book Reviews
Congress on Trial By James M. Burns New York: Harper & Brothers,1949. Pp. vii, 224. $3.00
reviewer: Paul H. Douglas
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Language and the Law By Frederick A. Philbrick New York: MacMillanCo., 1949. Pp. v, 254. $3.75
reviewer: Cecil Sims
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Commentary on the U.S. Judicial Code By James William Moore Albany: Matthew Bender and Company, 1949. Pp. viii, 684. $10.00
reviewer: Ray Forrester
A Study Of Interpretation In The Civil Law, Mitchell Franklin
A Study Of Interpretation In The Civil Law, Mitchell Franklin
Vanderbilt Law Review
Pound has indicated that comprehensively law connotes legal precepts, received legal ideals or ideological aims, and professional legal method or process.' Historically the interpretation of law in the main has been professional, such power being exercised by means of juristic ideas pertaining to legal method.
Hence Coke referred to the "artificial reason" of the English common law; and Windscheid said that the legal method of the Roman law was not a science, but an "art" (Kunst), which had to be learned through experience as well as through theory.
Past attempts to defeat such esoteric control of law have not been …