The Right to and the Cause for Action: Both Civil and Criminal, at Law, in Equity, and Admiralty Under the Common Law and Under the Codes (Classic Reprint)

The life of the law, says Holmes, 1been experience. This statement applies with peculiar force to that division of the law which we term Remedial. The time has long gone by, say Pollock and Maitland, when English lawyers were tempted to speak as though their scheme of forms of action had been invented in one piece by some all-wise legislator. It grew up little by little. At one period of this growth such forms became so numerous as to count up into the hundreds, and there were in common use some thirty or forty actions, between which there were large differences. But at that time, as very largely ever since, the question of ones legal rigM merged itself into a problem of legal redress, in ease the alleged right was infringed. As Lord Holt declared, it is a vain thing to imagine a right without a remedy; for want of right and want of remedy are reciprocal.
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