It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it
was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the
ground upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule
simply persists from blind imitation of the past.
-- O.W. Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 469 (1897)
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