Thursday, February 21, 2019

Quote of the Day (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., on Experience as ‘The Life of the Law’)


“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience... 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 and corollaries of a book of mathematics.”—Associate Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935), The Common Law (1881)

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