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Date:
Thu, 10 August 2006 11:26:07
From:
Ken Oliphant
Subject:
Law's (Il)logic
Name
that quotation in three:
"The
life of ..."
Ken
Oliphant, Cardiff Law School, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff
CF10 3AX
Tel:
029 2087 5365. Web page: http://www.cf.ac.uk/claws/staff/oliphant.html
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Jason Neyers 10/08/06 11:40 AM >>>
How
about:
Lord
Halsbury in Quinn v. Leathem [1901] A.C. 495 (H.L.) 1901:
[A]
case is only authority for what it actually decides. I entirely
deny that it can be quoted for a proposition that may seem to
follow logically from it. Such a mode of reasoning assumes that
the law is necessarily a logical code, whereas every lawyer must
acknowledge that the law is not always logical at all.
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