Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world possible?" So asked Roscoe Pound, 87, dean from 1916 to 1936 of Harvard Law School and still a dean among U.S. legal scholars, at a Brooklyn Bar Association meeting last week. His answer: not only is a law of the world possible, but it will probably precede any sort of sense-making world state. Tossing aside his 7,000-word manuscript, Dean Pound went on to deliver it practically verbatim from memory, was interrupted only once, when he was offered-and spurned-a chance to speak from his chair. From the first "crude attempts" at organized social control...
Common but Uncommon. "In successive stages of development of the legal order each later stage builds upon the preceding stage. To the principle of certainty established by the strict law the stage of equity and natural law adds the upholding of morals; the maturity of law adds to both the promoting and maintaining of the demands and expectations of the individual human being; and to all this the socialization of law is adding the promoting and maintaining of the expectations common to all men in a world where we must live and move and have our being in cooperation with...
...world law may eventually lead to a world state when the world becomes prepared for it. But the essential thing is a world legal order-a world regime of due process...
...replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising young man with a horse and cart." With the big truckers' legal eyes boring in upon him, Licensing Authority John Hanlon found an easy way out of the impasse. Young Derek Wiscombe had worked too hard at his menial tasks to bother keeping his accounts straight, could produce' no documentary evidence that his services were needed. Hanlon forthwith denied the application...
After producing three children and five bad movies, Actress Ingrid Bergman, 40, and Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, 51, signed a legal separation agreement in Rome. Winding up seven years of a waning marriage, Ingrid prepared with visible relief to resume her film career in England. At week's end Romeo Rossellini had vanished toward the north of Italy...