You can hardly imagine any profession having harder things sai about it than these. And, of course, Professor Vinogradoff—must know them all, Still, this is the engaging thesis of his book, that the taw the essence of common-sense. And he proves it too. He although the details Eedure are complicated and technical the operations of the mind in the domain of law are based on common-sense, and may be followed without difficulty by persons of ordinary intelligence and education." Then he says that "Laws take their place among the rules of conduct, which ensure social order trid intercourse. Therefore juries sciences the section of moral prudence appears among social
science." That is true. No one can maintain, that zoology isa moral science. No, indeed. Law is, Its complications," its antiquated its technicalities donot we are, I hope, "persons of ordinary nee and education," we can see that. The law has to do only with moral questions, questions of right and wrong, and we are all able to form a judgment oh questions of right and wrong, for each tone of has a conscience" of some sort, its capacity of judgment pending on the way we have treated But we all have it. The tecknicalities of law are on the surface only; the technicalities of other selenees-are of their very essence. That is the difference between law as a science and other especially physical sciences. "In law you ways come to common-sense, which it is to be hoped we all possess, at east, in some degree. Old Ulpian, the Roman lawyer, sums up all law in three clauses which are amens; "Honeste vivere, alterwm—nom laedere, suum clique—tribuere that is, "To live honourably, not hharm your neighbour, to give everyone his due. You can boil down all the proceedings of courts, Acts of Parliament, Norman-French expressions into' those three clauses, that anyone can understand.
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