Best quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo on Law

Checkout quotes by Benjamin N. Cardozo on Law

• ‟ Law never is, but is always about to be.

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• ‟ I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

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• ‟ The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

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• ‟ In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.

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• ‟ The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

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• ‟ Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.

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• ‟ History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

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