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''An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,<br> | ''An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,<br> | ||
''For promis’d joy!<br> | ''For promis’d joy!<br> | ||
—Robert Burns, '' To a Mouse''}} | —Robert Burns, '' To a Mouse, On turning Up in Her Nest with the Plough'' (1785)}} | ||
Anglo Saxon lawyers are trained from their first day that the [[common law]] flows in a [[Golden thread|golden stream]] from the [[Doctrine of precedent|decided case law]]; that the mystic runes of their craft are therefore the literary by-product of [[litigation]]. It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that they should be tempted to regard litigation as the highest expression of their art, a kind of Sinai from which stone tablets are delivered. | Anglo Saxon lawyers are trained from their first day that the [[common law]] flows in a [[Golden thread|golden stream]] from the [[Doctrine of precedent|decided case law]]; that the mystic runes of their craft are therefore the literary by-product of [[litigation]]. It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that they should be tempted to regard litigation as the highest expression of their art, a kind of Sinai from which stone tablets are delivered. | ||