The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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