Note and Comment

Authors

Joseph H. Drake, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Grover C. Grismore, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Victor H. Lane, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Edgar N. Durfee, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow
Robert G. Day, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

Epithetical Jurisprudence and the Annexation of Fixtures - If we begin with all the facts of a controversy and proceed inductively to determine the rights of the parties litigant, we thus arrive at a jurisprudence of rights, whereas, if we reason deductively from a rule, a definition, or a maxim of law to its application in the facts of our case, we can at best attain only a jurisprudence of rules, which has been so aptly characterized as an epithetical jurisprudence. The subject of fixtures is one in which we have great difficulty in applying the inductive method because the courts have been slower in approaching the subject scientifically in this field of the law than in others.

Recommended Citation

Joseph H. Drake, Grover C. Grismore, Victor H. Lane, Edgar N. Durfee & Robert G. Day, Note and Comment, 18 Mich. L. Rev. 405 (1920).
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