December 1887: The Law Journal editors looked forward to the first volume of The Complete Digest, which proposed to publish every six months a digest of every American case reported during the period in any weekly reporter and also of important English and Canadian cases, synopses of statutes and references to articles and essays and to notes on the current cases. “It is very satisfactory to know that you have in one digest a reference to all the various sets of reports in the country,” they said.
100 Years Ago
December 1912: N.Y. Supreme Court Justice William Howard lamented in a speech: “There are too many laws, too many courts, too many appeals, too many technicalities. Nobody knows the law. Nobody can know the law. In these days a law library would fill a barn. The human mind cannot comprehend such a mass of stuff, and its bulk is increasing at an appalling rate. Judges, governors and legislators are working at a feverish pace making law books. Under such conditions, who can know the law?”
75 Years Ago
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