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Benjamin N. Cardozo

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Also known as Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Benjamin Cardozo

United States federal judge (1870-1938)

Person · Open Library

Born
1870
Died
1938
Works
35

Top works

  • The growth of the law
  • La naturaleza de la función judicial
  • A natureza do processo e A evolução do direito
  • What medicine can do for law
  • The Benjamin N. Cardozo memorial lectures

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Type
Person
Country
FR

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Quotes

  • Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
  • Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
  • The defendant styles herself "a creator of fashions." Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and like articles are glad to pay for a certificate of her approval. The things which she designs, fabrics, parasols and what not, have a new value in the public mind when issued in her name. She employed the plaintiff to help her to turn this vogue into money.
  • The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.
  • Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
  • Fulfillment may fall short of expectation. At least there has been gained a foothold from which occasion can be seized.

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