Frederic R. Coudert 
Certainty and Justice 
Studies of the Conflict Between Precedent and Progress in the Development of the Law

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The conflict between the wisdom of past generations as embodied in Precedent and the ideas of the present day concerning right and justice, usually denominated Progress, has been for some time past more than usually acute. Questions that were formerly relegated to the dry discussions of legal technicians have now found their way into the press and into the forum of partisan political controversy.<br><br>It appeared to me that these studies might consequently be of some general interest at the present moment and in the somewhat disturbed state of public opinion on so many questions of fundamental importance.