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The Calcutta Law Journal February 16 1914

1914

I entertain the hope that the deliberations of the distinguished men of both countries who are to assemble at Montreal may add yet further to the esteem and good will which the people of the United States and of Canada and the United Kingdom have for each other." The King's Message The King's message forms a text for what I have to say and having conveyed that message to you "80n THE CALCUTTA L [...] The Common Law of England.—I read the other day the reflections of a foreign thinker on what seemed to him the barbarism of the entire system of English jurisprudence in its essence judge-made and not based on the scientific foundation of a code. [...] The reign of Charles I was the last of the ecclesiastical Chancellors The slight sketch of the earlier period which I have drawn shows that in thesetimes there might well have developed a great divergence of Equity from the Common Law under the influence of the Canon and Roman laws to which ecclesiastical Chancellors would naturally turn. [...] The Influence of Sittlichkeit.—Thus we have in the case of a community be it the city or be it the state an illustration of a sanction which is sufficient to compel observance of a rule without any question of the application of force. [...] I have before my mind the words which I have alteady quoted of the present President of the United States when he spoke of "lawyers who can think in the terms of society itself." And I believe that if in the language of yet another President in the famous words of Lincoln *e as a body in our minds and hearts "highly rosolve" to work.for the general recognition by society of the binding charact
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24
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sarf.120108
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The Calcutta Law Journal February 16 1914
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