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Page 359 of 469

  • Some Reflections on Law and Lawyers1

  • Lord Radcliffe
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / November 1950
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 361-374
    Print publication:
    November 1950

  • This will be a random paper. I would rather give it a title at the end, when I have finished, than at the beginning, before I have started: but if christening must precede development, I will call it ‘Some Reflections on Law and Lawyers’. Though it is well to remember how formidable an essay was in the past concealed under the disarming title of Reflections. In truth, the law seduces men of learning by the variety of its attractions and the specialisation which it encourages may prove, I think, a source of its undoing. We are all experts today; and experts, like kings, may rave, for all that the blows fall thick and fast upon the Achaeans.

  • Some Preliminaries to the Study of English Common Law Records1

  • Hilary Jenkinson
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / November 1950
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 375-391
    Print publication:
    November 1950

  • In his Inaugural Lecture as Downing Professor at Cambridge in 1888 F. W. Maitland, after introducing to his hearers certain matters—the variety, classification and enormous mass of Legal Records surviving in England—which were then little appreciated, went on to develop two lines of thought: first, that the wealth of evidence contained in these Records needed, if it was to be utilised, the labour of Scholars trained in the Law; and second, that it was evidence not only for Legal Historians but also, and much more, for other Historians and Students of every kind. The first of these propositions needs a little qualification: indeed Maitland himself would, I am sure, now qualify it, for some of the most enthusiastic and most successful Scholars who have followed in his footsteps have been not Lawyers but Historians. Still it remains true that the first and worst difficulties to be solved are legal ones, obscurities not soluble by any of the ordinary aids to the understanding of ancient Documents in general but arising from points of Law: some of them points which the Historian might puzzle over for hours whereas the Lawyer would solve them in a moment; all of them peculiar to this one great category of Records.

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