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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Legal definitions are, for the most part, inductive generalizations derived from our juridical experience; and, in order to be complete and adequate, they must sum up the results of all that experience, as they are to be found in the special cases that belong to the class to be defined. 1 Grant's Cases (Pa.) 328.