I sometimes think that we worry ourselves overmuch about the enduring consequences of our errors. They may work a little confusion for a time. In the end, they will be modified or corrected or their teachings ignored. The future takes care of such things. In the endless process of testing and retesting, there is a constant rejection of the dross, and a constant retention of whatever is pure and sound and fine.
The future, gentlemen, is yours. We have been called to do our parts in an ageless process. Long [179] after I am dead and gone, and my little part in it is forgotten, you will be here to do your share, and to carry the torch forward. I know that the flame will burn bright while the torch is in your keeping. [180] Notes: Nature of the Judicial ProcessEndnotes Notes to Lecture I [1] Cf. N. M. Butler, "Philosophy," pp. 18, 43.
[2] "Human Nature in Politics" p. 138.
[3] Sec. 370, p. 165.
[4] Cf. Pound, "Courts and Legislation," 9 Modern Legal Philosophy Series, p. 226.
[5] "Die Kunst der Rechtsanwendung," p. 72.
[6] "Science of Legal Method," 9 Modern Legal Philosophy Series, pp. 4, 45, 65, 72, 124, 130, 159.
[7] Gény, "Methode d'Interpreétation et Sources en droit privé positif," vol. II, p. 180, sec. 176, ed.
1919; transl. 9 Modern Legal Philosophy Series, p. 45.
[8] P. 65, supra ; "Freie Rechtsfindung und freie Rechtswissenschaft," 9 Modern Legal Philosophy Series. [9]
Cf. Gnaeaus Flavius (Kantorowicz), "Der Kampf um Rechtswissenschaft," p.
48: "Von der Kultur des Richters hängt im letzten Grunde aller Fortschritt der Rechtsent wicklung ab."[10] Gray, "Nature and Sources of the Law," sec.
395; Muirhead, "Roman Law " pp. 399, 400.
[11] Introduction to Gierke's "Political Theories of the Middle Age," p. viii.
[12] Saleilles, "De la Personnalit&eactue;Juridique," p. 45; Ehrlich, "Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts" pp.
34, 35; Pound, "Proceedings of American Bar Assn. 1919," p. 455[13] "Essay on Judicature."
[14] Redlich, "The Case Method in American Lair Schools" Bulletin No. 8, Carnegie Foundation, p. 37.
[15] McDougall, "Social Psychology" p. 354; J.
C. Gray, "Judicial Precedents," 9 Harvard L. R 27.
[16] Munroe Smith, "Jurisprudence," Columbia University Press, 1909, p. 21; cf. Pound, "Courts and Legislation," 7 Am. Pol. Science Rev. 361; 9 Modern Legal Philosophy Series, p. 214; Pollock, "Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics," p. 246.
[17] Coolcy, "Torts," 1st ed., p. 93; Pollock, "Torts," 10th ed., p. 21.
[18] Phelps v. Nowlen, 72 N.Y. 39; Rideout v. Knox, 148 Mass. 368.
[19] Lamb v. Cheney, 227 N. Y. 418; Aikens v. Wlsconsin, 195 U. S. 194, 204; Pollock, "Torts," supra.
[20] Arnold, "Essays in Criticism," second series, p. I.
[21] Holdsworth, "History of English Law," 2, p.
41; Wigmore, "Responsibility for Tortious Acts," 7 Harvard L. R. 315, 383, 441; 3 Anglo-Am. Legal Essays 474; Smith, "Liability for Damage to Land,"33 Harvard L. R. 551; Ames, "Law and Morals," 22 Harvard L. R. 97, 99;Isaacs, "Fault and Liability," 31 Harvard L. R. 954.
[22] Cf. Duguit, "Les Transformations générales du droit privé depuis le Code Napoléon," Continental Legal Hist. Series, vol. XI, pp. 125, 126, secs. 40, 42.
[23] Holdsworth, supra, 2, p. 72; Ames, History of Parol Contracts prior to Assumpsit," 3 Anglo-Am. Legal Essays 304.
[24] Holdsworth, supra , 3, pp. 330, 336;Ames, "History of Assumpsit,"3 Anglo-Am. Legal Essays 275, 276.
[25] F. C. Montague in "A Sketch of Legal History,"Maitland and Montague, p. 161.
[26] Cf. Bailhache, J., in Belfast Ropewalk Co.
v. Bushell, 1918, 1 K. B. 210, 213: "Unfortunately or fortunately, I am not sure which, our law is not a science."[27] "The Common Law," p. 1.
[28] W. G. Miller, "The Data of Jurisprudence,"p. 335; cf. Gray, "Nature and Sources of the Law," sec. 420; Salmond, "Jurisprudence,"p. 170.
[29] Cf. Gény, "Méthode d'Interprétation et Sources en droit privé positif," vol. II, p. 119.
[30]. W. G. Miller, supra p. 281; Bryce, "Studies in History and Jurisprudence," vol. II, p. 629.
[31] P.I.
[32] Introduction to Hohfeld's Treatise by W. W.
Cook.
[33] Professor Cook's Introduction.
[34] Higgins v. Murray, 73 N. Y. 252, 254; 2 Williston on Contracts, sec. 962; N. Y. Personal Prop. Law, sec. 103a.
[35] Paine v. Meller,, 6 Ves. 349, 352; Sewell v. Underhill, 197 N. Y. 168; 2 Williston on Contracts, sec. 931.
[36] 2 Williston on Contracts, sec. 940.
[37] Cook, 29 Harvard L. R. 816, 836.
[38] Williston, 30 Harvard L. R. 97; 31 ibid. 822.
[39] Ellerson v. Westcott, 148 N. Y. 149, 154;Ames, "Lectures on Legal History," pp. 313, 314.
[40] Beatty v. Guggenheim Exploration Co., 225N. Y. 380, 386.
[41] Beatty v. Guggenheim Exploration Co., supra ;Ames, supra .
[42] Jacobs & Youngs, Inc. v. Kent, 230 N.
Y. 239.
[43] Cf. Hynes v. N. Y. Central R. R. Co. (231N. Y. 229, 235).
[44] "Notre droit public, comme notre droit privé, est un jus scriptum (Michoud, "La Responsibilité de l'état à raison des fautes de ses agents," Revue du droit public, 1895, P. 273, quoted by Gény, vol. I, p. 40, sec. 19).
[45] Op. cit. , vol. I, p. 127, sec. 61.
[46] Ehrlich, "Die Juristische Logik," pp. 225, 227.
[47] Cf. Gény, opp. cit. , vol. II, p. 121, sec. 165; also vol. I, p. 304, sec. 107. Notes to Lecture II [1] Cf. Holmes, "The Path of the Law," 10 Harvard L.
R. 465.
[2] Bryce, "Studies in History and Jurisprudence,"vol. II, p. 609.
[3] "Collected Papers," vol. III, p. 438.
[4] Techt v. Hughes, 229 N. Y. 222, 240.
[5] Holmes, J., in N. Y. Trust Co. v. Eisner, 256U.S. 345, 349.
[6] "Equity and Foms of Action," p. 296.
[7] "The Path of the Law," 10 Harvard L. R. 472.
[8] "Juristic Science and the Law," 31 Harvard L.
R. 1047.
[9] Coke on Littleton, 62a; Post v. Pearsall, 22Wend. 440.
[10] Blackstone, Comm., pp. 67, 68; Gray, "Nature and Sources of the Law," p. 266, sec. 598; Sadler, "The Relation of Custom to Law," p. 59.
