The jury system is
the mitigation of the law.
XVI
LOOKING BACKWARD
Extracts from the Graduation Dissertation of a Columbia
J.E. upon receiving his degree of Juridical Expert in 1947.
Historical investigation of obsolete customs is of little value beyond
preserving some record of what may soon be forgotten.
In the year 1947 it seems almost unbelievable that the universal use
by the public of Judicial Corporations should have been a matter of
such recent economic growth. It is interesting to trace their
development and the social causes from which they sprang.
The efficient administration of these co-operative Corporations being
demonstrated by their financial success, makes it unnecessary to
dwell upon the details of their intensely developed organization.
Existing as they do upon so broad a comprehension of the whole
commercial and social structures, it is little wonder that they have
proven their value to the community. Their highly specialized
departments of Issues, Investigation, Statutory Law, Records,
Determination and Results correspond in a measure to the former method
of procedure in the extinct courts of law and equity. Times have
indeed changed.
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