The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. (Benjamin N. Cardozo)

The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

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