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It is now acknowledged that legal reasoning cannot be properly described according to a deductive or an inductive model but consists rather of a marshalling of more or less persuasive arguments — which is peculiar only in the way in which a structure of authoritative precedent is intertwined with the kinds of criteria which go into everyday moral and pruden - tial decision making.
CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968
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It is now acknowledged that legal reasoning cannot be properly described according to a deductive or an inductive model but consists rather of a marshalling of more or less persuasive arguments — which is peculiar only in the way in which a structure of authoritative precedent is intertwined with the kinds of criteria which go into everyday moral and pruden - tial decision making.
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It's what makes Pruden comfortable openly mocking the president's "blood impulse" -- as if the president is only technically American, in a way that we shouldn't respect., pruden
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Georgius lofepkus Eggs (m) in Cardinale noftro infignes corporis ac animi dotes, morum eU* gantiam, doHrince praeftantiam, fenatoriam pruden* iiam collaudat: et pollquam fuperius aiiata more*
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Quantas non debeat Deo Germania lau - des, qnod Mariae Therefia: pruden - dentia, follicitudine, ac fagacitate, uti mox Fafla demonfttabnnt, hnic furori immanitatique tale froenuminjeaum fit,. ut in innocentium vitas faevire haud fi - dle poflit!
De magia liber Anton de Haen 1774
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Ifle GuHermus fuit vir tantae pruden - tiae, ut cum ejfet ignarus literarum, omnes Legiflas difputando fliperaret, U - bertum de la Cruce fecit Comitem de Benaf.
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Verfus Jtalicos, pruden - tiorum confilio, rn latinum vertere fuperfedere debui, tum quod extra nativam fuam linguam translati, penitus nullum habeant faporem & gratiam, tum quod vix aliquid utilitatis in alieno idiomate habeant.
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Hoc fapientiae & pietatis in Regia Tua Majeflate con - nubium ef ficit, ut fucatum proferas nihil 3 nihil a pruden - t\x legibus alienum.
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Chap. 043. note or notes shall bear on their face the words, Hinsdale Fire District Sewer Loan, Act of 1910; shall be payable within five years from the date of issne; shall bear interest, payable semi-annually, at a rate not exceeding four and one half per cent per annum; and shall be signed by the treasurer of the district and countersigned by the pruden - tial committee or a majority thereof.
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Any land taken or acquired under this act shall be managed, improved and controlled by the pruden - tial committee hereinafter provided for, in such manner as they shall deem for the best interest of the district.
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