We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.