The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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.