few solicitors were graduates, and many preferred (some vehemently) to have as articled clerks those who were straight from school, untainted by academe
Merito partitionis nostrae exemplum a Theologia ad Jurisprudentiam transtulimus, quia mira est utriusque Facultatis similitudo
academic study of the law was as out of place in a university as plumbing
whether such discrimination was accomplished ingeniously or ingenuously
the thoroughgoing analysis of Greek thought merged the science of law in the greater science of which it is properly a part, politics
An inanimate object, such as a ballot drop box, cannot be the municipal clerk
A jurist is a person who knows a little about the law of every country except his own
the Oxford knack … of never going to lectures
antitrust laws, which were rooted in deep suspicion of concentrated private power, now often promote it
The question of who started any given conflict or who is most at fault leads to lengthy historical digressions that are antithetical to the careful, objective investigation into the contemporary conduct of warring parties