Law Never Is, But Is Always About

Fraud Includes The Pretense Of Knowledge When Knowledge There Is None.

History Or Custom Or Social Utility Or Some Compelling Sense Of Justice Or Sometimes Perhaps A Semi-intuitive Apprehension Of The Pervading Spirit Of Our Law Must Come To The Rescue Of The Anxious Judge And Tell Him Where To Go.

It Is For Ordinary Minds, Not For Psychoanalysts, That Our Rules Of Evidence Are Framed. They Have Their Source Very Often In Considerations Of Administrative Convenience, Or Practical Expediency, And Not In Rules Of Logic.

Opinion Has A Significance Proportioned To The Sources That Sustain It.

As I Search The Archives Of My Memory I Seem To Discern Six Types Or Methods [of Judicial Writing] Which Divide Themselves From One Another With Measurable Distinctness. There Is The Type Magisterial Or Imperative; The Type Laconic Or Sententious; The Type Conversational Or Homely; The Type Refined Or Artificial, Smelling Of The Lamp, Verging At Times Upon Preciosity Or Euphuism; The Demonstrative Or Persuasive; And Finally The Type Tonsorial Or Agglutinative, So Called From The Shears And The Pastepot Which Are Its Implements And Emblem.