The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Legal theory Reasonableness Law

Author

A.P. Herbert

Source

The Reasonable Man

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Politician Lawyer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

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The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

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Language
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Time
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

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