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Samuel Bray

Past and Present

"All law is a compromise between past and present, between tradition and convenience. Hence pure analysis, since it deals with the present only, can never fully explain any legal system."

-- James Bryce, Studies in History and Jurisprudence, vol. 2, at 616 (1901).

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