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26 Annu. Rep. A.B.A. 341 (1903)
Law and Reasonableness

handle is hein.journals/anraba26 and id is 341 raw text is: LAW AND REASONABLENESS. ANNUAL ADDRESS BY LE BARON B. 'COLT, OF PROVIDxNCIZ, R. I., United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. Hr. President and Gentlemen of the American Bar Associa- tion : The first and most pleasant duty which falls upon me at this time is the acknowledgment of my deep appreciation of the very high honor of this invitation to address you at your annual meeting. I understand it is a law of this Association, established by its founders, that these invitations are not under any circum- stances to be declined; and that it has been decreed, with Mr. Carter's approval, that this particular law is a command pro- ceeding from a sovereign power; and that ignorance of the law is no excuse. At the same time, it must be confessed that obedience to your mandate is not an easy task. Our profes- sional duties are laborious and exacting. Judges, as well as lawyers, are busy men, and time for preparation is limited, as was pointed out by Mr. Phelps at your second annual meeting, in the opening of his masterly address on John Marshall. Another difficulty, which increases from year to year, is the choice of a subject. We are told that Augustus dealt the final blow to the BResponsa Prudentum, the answers of the learned in the law. The probable cause was that the subjects were exhausted. I need hardly remind you that the answers of the learned in the law during the quarter of a century since this Association began its invaluable work, in the addresses of its presidents, the annual addresses, and the papers read, have so far covered the whole field of jurisprudence that the last three annual responses of the jurisconsults were devoted to the (341)

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