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Common Law and Common Sense

Name: Common Law and Common Sense
Creator: William Renwick Riddell
Keywords: 16. Peace & justice

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 1918Publisher:JSTORJournal:The Yale Law Journal, volume 27, page 993 (issn: 0044-0094,

Authors: William Renwick Riddell;

doi: 10.2307/787627

Common Law and Common Sense

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Early in the last century (i804), Mr. Smith, an eminent lawyer of Woodbury, Connecticut, in an eloquent and impressive argument before the Supreme Court of Errors2 indignantly disputed the proposition of Lord Mansfield stated in Corbett v. Poetnitz.3 "That as the times alter, new customs and new manners arise, and new exceptions and applications of the rules of law must be made." Inveighing against the sins of England, he exclaims:

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