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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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.
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Justice Mind Ordinary
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

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