Poor Illiterate Reason: History, Nationalism and Common Law

Peter Goodrich

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Abstract

By long use and custom men, especially that are aged and have been long educated in the profession and practice of the law, contract a kind of superstitious veneration of it beyond what is just and reasonable. (Hale, 1787: 264).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7-28
Number of pages22
JournalSocial & Legal Studies
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1992

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Social Sciences
  • Law

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