 It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation...  Harvard Law Review - Page 6501916Full view - About this book
 | Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth - 1914 - 964 pages
...Foundations of Legal Liability, p. 48. Mr. Justice Holmes has expressed disapproval of the doctrine of trespass ab initio : " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1916 - 1376 pages
...Holmes has expressed his disapproval of the survival of what he regards as an antiquated doctrine: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of "Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which... | |
 | National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session - 1921 - 542 pages
...man of the present but the ™an of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV . Far more fundamental questions still await a better answer... | |
 | Robert Gildersleeve Paterson - 1918 - 194 pages
...man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics. It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 120 pages
...subject to the criticism which Mr. Justice Holmes leveled against the use of history when he said: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it is laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 112 pages
...subject to the criticism which Mr. Justice Holmes leveled against the use of history when he said: "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it is laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1948 - 350 pages
...subject to the criticism which Mr. Justice Holmes leveled against the use of history when he said : "It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it is laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1950 - 504 pages
...field to abide by familiar formulas. "It is revolting," Oliver Wendell Holmes was to write in 1897, "to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV," but for a century American judges, most of them trained... | |
 | United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research - 1958 - 366 pages
...judicial form.' Justice HOLMES summed up his viewpoints by stating, in The Path of the Law,19 that '. . . it is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.' In a philosophical tenor, JOHN DEWEY wrote,20 'Here is where the great practical... | |
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