I Take Judge-made Law As

Membership In The Bar Is A Privilege Burdened With Conditions.

As I Search The Archives Of My Memory I Seem To Discern Six Types Or Methods [of Judicial Writing] Which Divide Themselves From One Another With Measurable Distinctness. There Is The Type Magisterial Or Imperative; The Type Laconic Or Sententious; The Type Conversational Or Homely; The Type Refined Or Artificial, Smelling Of The Lamp, Verging At Times Upon Preciosity Or Euphuism; The Demonstrative Or Persuasive; And Finally The Type Tonsorial Or Agglutinative, So Called From The Shears And The Pastepot Which Are Its Implements And Emblem.

Not Honesty Alone, But The Punctilio Of An Honor The Most Sensitive, Is Then The Standard Of Behavior.

The Constant Assumption Runs Throughout The Law That The Natural And Spontaneous Evolutions Of Habit Fix The Limits Of Right And Wrong.

The Judge Is Not The Knight-errant, Roaming At Will In Pursuit Of His Own Ideal Of Beauty Or Of Goodness.