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Full-Text Articles in Law and Philosophy
What Is The Law?, Joseph W. Bingham
What Is The Law?, Joseph W. Bingham
Michigan Law Review
It is intended that this title shall demand an analysis of the field of study in which the lawyer or jurist works and a determination of its essential and contributing elements. The purpose of the article is to sketch briefly a partial answer which will be instructive and helpful to the student who faces the problem as I faced it some ten years ago. I do not expect that anything new will be found in these ideas. I imagine that all of them must have been expressed many times before. Some of them are commonplace. None is esoteric. Probably the …
The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock
The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock
Michigan Law Review
If there is one virtue that our books of authority claim for the Common Law more positively than another, it is that of being reasonable. The law is even said to be the perfection of reason. Not that the meaning of that saying is exhausted by the construction which a layman would naturally put upon it. For, as Coke had to tell King James I., much to his displeasure, there is an artificial reason of the law. Certainty is among the first objects of systematic justice. General principles being once fixed, the only way to attain certainty is to work …