Northwestern College of Law - Norwester Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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g , to I X I Faculty 4- -i- J. I'lrUN'l' l'IliNllRlCKSUN, A.B., LL.B., Judge of the District Court for Multnomah County. Dean of the Faculty. Contracts. Partnership. Wn.i.mm L. 'I3iuaws1'ian, A.B., LL.B., Pleacling. Gicoiuzic L. BULANU, A.B., LL.B., Bailments and Carriers. JOHN B. CLELAND, LL.B., Formerly judge ol tl1c Circuit Court of Oregon. Torts. GUY C. H. Contiss, Formerly Chief justice Supreme Court North Dakota and Dead Law Depart- ment University of North Dakota. Equ ity. j'AM1cs W. CRAWFCIIID, AB., LL.B., Reporter, Oregon Supreme Court. Current Law and Legislation. U. T. Dl'IhI'AR'l'INI, LL.B., Iixtraorrlinary Remedies. l':RNliS'I' W. Hnlwv, A.B. Suretyship and Mortgages. XIARTIN W. l-IAWKINS., A.I3., LL.B., Formerly Judge of the District Court For Multnomah County. Forms anrl Conveyances. V. V. I'1-:Null-ziuzimss, Conflict of Laws. Nici-tot..-is ,Irwin-ziauv, A.B., LL.B., Negotiable Instruments. l-Cviclencc. IiANIlAl.l. S. jomcs, A.ll., j.D., Insurance. x . Q it g x, 1'-tu., X , t X, N....! xg-Jloxi! Xx.JfX,-y Gnome L. ICOEHN, A.M., LL.B., Formerly Head of the History Department, Reed College. Constitutional Law. OT'ro I. KRAEMER, LL.B., Formerly Justice of the Peace for Portland District. Domestic Relations. Cnrzsrtsn G. AIURPHY, A.B., LL.B., Formerly Referee in Bankruptcy for Oregon. Bankruptcy. CHA1u.Es R. SPACKMAN, Jn., LL.B., Registrar. Legal Bibliography. l:l1aN1w M. TOMLINSON, LL.B., Criminal Law ROBERT TUCKER, A.B., LL.B., Judge of the Circuit Court of Oregon. Legal Ethics CI.IlfroRn E. ZOLLINUER, A.B., LL.B., Real Property. lA'iIls and Probate Practice. JAMES W. GANTENIHEIN, A.M., LL.B., Secretary of the Faculty. A1.ms1zT L. GRUTZE, Lecturer on Trust Forms and Escrows. Jfxcon KANZLER, A.B., LL.B., Lecturer in Domestic Relations on Juvenile Court Practice. Fiuzn R. SALWAY, LL.B., Lecturer in Legal Bibliography on the Use of the Library. I. C. Vmznz, A.B., ' Lecturer in Insurance on Insurance Practice. LAMAR Tooze, A..l5., LL.B., Sales, Torts 4' A-f': 1 - M Q4 ,x' li 5 YjRgffLf'Lf'J RJINLJX N inte

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Concerning Justice Rv Inman J, Hum' .I-licNmzICKsoN Drnn nf llm NflFf1I?n'FA'fl'I'll C'ulIc'gv uf Lam' TUDENTS of law should also be students of justice. I wish this year to comment briefly on the meaning of justice as viewed by the lay mind and as interpreted by the courts. In his picturesque Lives Plutarch has this to say of the Greek, Aristides: Of all his virtues, the common people were most affected with his justice, because of its con- tinual and common useg and thus, although of mean fortune and ordinary birth, he possessed himself of the most kingly and divine appellation of J ustg which kings, however, and tyrants have never sought afterg but have taken delight to be surnamed besiegers of cities, thunderers, conquerers- affecting it seems the reputation which proceeds from power and violence, rather than that of virtue. Earthquakes, thunders and storms have great powerg but in justice and equity nothing participates except by means of reason and the knowledge of that which is divine. Socrates was non-committal. Under close questioning he replied, I know not what justice is, and therefore am not likely to know whether or not it is a virtue, nor can I say whether the just man is happy or unhappy. Subsequently Aristotle tersely defined justice as that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert, and J ustinian in his Institutes declares it to be the set and constant purpose which gives to every man his due. The most workable conception seems to have been expressed by Emery in his lectures before the Yale Law School in which he reached the conclusion that justice is the equillibrium between the freedom of the in- dividual and the safety of society. Whatever difficulty philosophers may have had in defining justice it is not shared by the average litigant when he feels that a rank injustice has been done him. As an old English judge remarked Injustice cuts to the bone. There is an innate feeling that society abridges individual rights instead of conferring them. From the Decalogue down the language of the law has been compulsive, Thou shalt and Thou shalt not, and men generally act upon the theory that what society does not forbid by statute or custom the individual may do. The young, untrained child is impatient of all restraint. It is only by experience that he learns he must submit to Ten