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Utter Justice: Verbal Glimpses Into Fifteen Hundred Years Of Our Legal History

Alfred H. Knight

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This book is a compilation of legal and law-related statements that have defined and characterized our legal system over the centuries. But the reader will quickly recognize that it is not a textbook in disguise. The quotations, and the actions and ideas they present and represent were selected by purely personal criteria: the author found them fascinating, important, or revealing. They range from history-changing statements to purely mythological encounters to royal chit-chat to an apology made in a casual encounter on an American street that symbolized the healing of a terrible cultural wound. The hope is to convey, not a rigid history, but a random flavor of how the law has been shaped by calculated, casual, powerful, and even silly words, uttered for the ages or merely for the moment. This disparate verbal collection tells us that our legal system is not like a carefully sculptured statue, but like a human being, is composed of all that it has known and done and said.

Language: English

Pages: 168

Format: Paperback

Publisher: iUniverse

Release: July 07, 2008

ISBN: 0595475566

ISBN 13: 9780595475568

Utter Justice: Verbal Glimpses Into Fifteen Hundred Years Of Our Legal History

Alfred H. Knight

0/5 ( ratings)

This book is a compilation of legal and law-related statements that have defined and characterized our legal system over the centuries. But the reader will quickly recognize that it is not a textbook in disguise. The quotations, and the actions and ideas they present and represent were selected by purely personal criteria: the author found them fascinating, important, or revealing. They range from history-changing statements to purely mythological encounters to royal chit-chat to an apology made in a casual encounter on an American street that symbolized the healing of a terrible cultural wound. The hope is to convey, not a rigid history, but a random flavor of how the law has been shaped by calculated, casual, powerful, and even silly words, uttered for the ages or merely for the moment. This disparate verbal collection tells us that our legal system is not like a carefully sculptured statue, but like a human being, is composed of all that it has known and done and said.

Language: English

Pages: 168

Format: Paperback

Publisher: iUniverse

Release: July 07, 2008

ISBN: 0595475566

ISBN 13: 9780595475568

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