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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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 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
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
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never

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