Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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I do not underrate the yearning for mechanical and formal tests. They are possible and useful in zones upon the legal sphere. The pain of choosing is the pain …
Permalink to quote #32 The reconciliation of the irreconcilable, the merger of antitheses, the synthesis of opposites, these are the great problems of the law... We have the claims o…
Permalink to quote #34 Magic words and incantations are as fatal to our science as they are to any other. Methods, when classified and separated, acquire their true bearing and persp…
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