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Natural Law and Everyday Law*

Natural Law and Everyday Law* NATURAL LAW AND EVERYDAY LAW* Joseph O'Meara LIKE MOST TERMS "natural law" has had, and has, a variety of meanings. In most of its meanings it touches scarcely at all the professional concerns of the lawyer but moves, rather, on a plane widely separated from his daily cares and duties. Thus, for the most part, natural law stands aloof from the urgent here-and-now with which lawyer and judge necessarily are pre- occupied; it inhabits a world apart. Relevant in this connection is a comment by Canon Leclercq, Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain: . . . The term "natural law" is currently fashionable, especially among Catholics who seek a rallying point against relativism. There are, there- fore, many people fond of using it, and they bring it up on any pretext, as other men use the term "sociology." x I venture to think he is right — on both counts. In these remarks I hope to suggest an approach to natural law which will make it useful on a day-to-day basis in the perplexities by which practitioners and judges constantly are confronted. I shall talk more about the judge than about the practitioner, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Jurisprudence Oxford University Press

Natural Law and Everyday Law*

O'Meara, Joseph
American Journal of Jurisprudence , Volume 5 (1) – Jan 1, 1960
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Oxford University Press
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© 1960 by The University of Notre Dame
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0065-8995
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2049-6494
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10.1093/ajj/5.1.83
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NATURAL LAW AND EVERYDAY LAW* Joseph O'Meara LIKE MOST TERMS "natural law" has had, and has, a variety of meanings. In most of its meanings it touches scarcely at all the professional concerns of the lawyer but moves, rather, on a plane widely separated from his daily cares and duties. Thus, for the most part, natural law stands aloof from the urgent here-and-now with which lawyer and judge necessarily are pre- occupied; it inhabits a world apart. Relevant in this connection is a comment by Canon Leclercq, Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain: . . . The term "natural law" is currently fashionable, especially among Catholics who seek a rallying point against relativism. There are, there- fore, many people fond of using it, and they bring it up on any pretext, as other men use the term "sociology." x I venture to think he is right — on both counts. In these remarks I hope to suggest an approach to natural law which will make it useful on a day-to-day basis in the perplexities by which practitioners and judges constantly are confronted. I shall talk more about the judge than about the practitioner,

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American Journal of Jurisprudence – Oxford University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1960

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