 Strenuous endeavors to improve the law are not impeded but forwarded by a zealous study of legal history. . . . To-day we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze to-day, and that to-day may not paralyze to-morrow.  Roman Law in the Modern World - Page 11by Charles Phineas Sherman - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 790 pages
...with which he deals. They may lead into historical investigation of our own early law, the study of "the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze to-day, and to-day may not paralyze to-morrow." Or perhaps he must scrutinize foreign systems for the light which... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - Constitutional history - 1911 - 584 pages
...lightening, the pressure that the past must exercise upon the present, and the present upon the future. To-day we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyse to-day, and to-day may not paralyse to-morrow. LINCOLNSHIRE COURT ROLLS AND YORKSHIRE INQUISITIONS... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - Constitutional history - 1911 - 590 pages
...lightening, the pressure that the past must exercise upon the present, and the present upon the future. To-day we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyse to-day, and to-day may not paralyse to-morrow. LINCOLNSHIRE COURT ROLLS AND YORKSHIRE INQUISITIONS... | |
 | Francis Lee Dunham - Social Science - 1925 - 260 pages
...lightening, the pressure that the past must exercise upon the present, and the present upon the future. Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze today, and today may not paralyze tomorrow." The history of a race is the record of its attitude toward fundamental... | |
 | Harry Lloyd Miller, Richard Theodore Hargreaves - Education - 1925 - 436 pages
...new transmissions ahead. In it a process of conJinuing education will be begun. All good work is one. "To-day we study the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze to-morrow," said Maitland. ,To attain worthy objectives in this new adventure will .require time and... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee (Jr.) - Freedom of expression - 1928 - 300 pages
...doctrines of the relation between the empire, the church, and the guilds? Yet Maitland's attitude was, "Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze today, and today may not paralyze tomorrow." He began to inquire into the nature of grou of human beings, incorporated... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1078 pages
...the future, but that we also look back to the experience of the past. As Maitland said: We must today study the day before yesterday In order that yesterday may not paralyze today and today may not paralyze tomorrow. The Constitution, for reasons of practical necessity, left with Congress... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 1060 pages
...the future, but that we also look back to the experience of the past. As Maitland said: We must today study the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today and today may not paralyze tomorrow. The Constitution, for reasons of practical necessity, left with Congress... | |
 | Periodicals - 1924 - 576 pages
...doctrines of the relation between the empire, the church, and the guilds? Yet Maitland's attitude was, "Today we study the day before yesterday, in order that yesterday may not paralyze today, and today may not paralyze tomorrow." He began to inquire into the nature of groups of human beings, incorporated... | |
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