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.
Law never is, but is always about to be.
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.