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From Google ScholarPutting Case-Based Instruction into Context: Examples from Legal ...Susan M Williams - 1992 - Journal of the Learning Sciences On the Nature of Supreme Court Decision MakingTracey E George, Lee Epstein - 1992 - The American Political Science Review Entrepreneurial Enterprises, Endogenous Ownership, And The Limits ...STEVEN N WIGGINS - 1995 - Economic Inquiry Law, science, and humanityGary B Melton - 1990 - Law and Human Behavior Popular passagesThe 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, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by- which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms... Page 5 If people would gratify the passion of revenge outside of the law, if the law did not help them, the law has no choice but to satisfy the craving itself, and thus avoid the greater evil of private retribution. Page 47 The ruling was in form that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury; but... Page 127 Every important principle which is developed by litigation is in fact and at bottom the result of more or less definitely understood views of public policy; most generally, to be sure, under our practice and traditions, the unconscious result of instinctive preferences and inarticulate convictions but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis. Page xiii If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die : then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. Page 11 We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape. Page 122 I shall have my action upon the case against him, without any warranty by the smith to do it well; for, it is the duty of every artificer to exercise his art rightly and truly as he ought. Page 190 So where a person does an act, lawful in itself, but in an unlawful manner, and without due caution and circumspection; as when a workman flings down a stone or piece of timber into the street, and kills a man ; this may be either misadventure, manslaughter, or murder, according to the circumstances under which the original act was done : if it were in a country village, where... Page 66 ... or it might throw all loss upon the actor irrespective of fault. The state does none of these things, however, and the prevailing view is that its cumbrous and expensive machinery ought not to be set in... Page 102 When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal... Page 304 Contents
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