The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a…

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man · 1935

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1935

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Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

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