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The statement is by Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Path of the Law. His imagined bad man wants to predict the practical consequences imposed by courts, regardless of moral…

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"If we take a view of our friend the bad man we shall find that he does not care two straws for the axioms or deductions, but that he does want to know what the Massachusetts or English courts are likely to do in fact" is a classic statement made by

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The statement is by Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Path of the Law. His imagined bad man wants to predict the practical consequences imposed by courts, regardless of moral approval. The example explains Holmes’s emphasis on what courts will actually do.

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