Quotation Source? "Law is a Seamless Web"

From: Lorin Geirtner (geitner@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 12:12:34 PDT


A professor posed me an interesting question, yesterday:

We all know the old quote, "The Law is a Seamless Web".

However, what exactly is the citation? The professor who asked me
thought
it was Justice Holmes. I had always thought it was Justice Cardozo.
Another person I have contacted thought it was originally Frederic
Maitland.

So far, I have checked sources for quotations on Westlaw and Lexis, and
Bartletts (both on-line and in print) and a number of other Web and
Print
sources for this quotation, but have yet to find it. It is proving a
lot
harder to pin down than I originally anticipated.

If anyone knows the exact source, and citation, for this quote, it will
be much appreciated.

Lorin Geitner
Reference Lawyer/Librarian
Chapman University School of Law



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