Word: jurist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eminent jurist and certified American hero, Oliver Wendell Holmes, dead these 17 years, came down from Olympus last week to decide one more case...
Died. Robert Porter Patterson, 60, World War I hero, lawyer, jurist, onetime (1945-47) U.S. Secretary of War; in a plane crash at Elizabeth, N.J. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Known either as Bynkershoek's rule, for its propounder, Dutch Jurist Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673-1743), or as the cannon-fire rule...
Stuchka, leading Soviet jurist for several years, thinks that bourgeois norms or legal rules "maintain by organized force the balance of interests of the various classes of society to the advantage of the ruling classes (bourgeois and landlords)." Laws, however, must be retained in the "transitional period of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
...realists' argument Jurist Pound has a confident rebuttal: "To judges well brought up in the common-law tradition the main body of its precepts speak alike no matter what their individual social or economic backgrounds . . . The judges who have made American law did not find an easy retreat from the hard work of the judicial office in a theory of a psychological impotence of judges to reach impersonal results...