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Excerpt from A Selection of Cases on the English Law of Contract
Another advantage to be derived from this study is, that in the Reports the student has examples of precise and accurate statement of fact and clear definition of the issue involved. The decisions of the Judges are not mere dry statements of rules and principles. The student will there meet with a well-balanced weighing of facts, a just criticism of arguments, a luminous exposition of law, and occasionally farsighted and lofty considerations of expediency, joining for the moment the domain of the legislator with the province of the judge.
And there is this further advantage, last but not least in the eyes of the practical lawyer, that through the study of these Reports a man becomes familiar with the tone of thought, the attitude of mind, which prevail in our Courts, he gets a touch of the genius of English law, the Author would venture to add - of the mind of the English race.
In insisting on teaching by cases, it is not to be understood that any doubt is suggested as to the value of disquisitions in lectures; lectures are indispensable for the proper teaching of law. The Author's wish is to see them supplemented.
The cases here brought together have been selected chie?y with reference to the masterly works of Sir Frederick Pollock and Sir William Anson which together present a result valuable at once to the jurist, the practitioner and the academic student.
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