...enforceability recalls what was said in The Western Maid, 257 US 419, 433. 42 S. Ct 159. 161. 66 L. Ed. 299: «Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen to the law but that are elusive to the grasp.' •The Government rightly points to the difference between...

...some may choose to place upon it. Agricultural shippers need access to a remedy that currently exists. "Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law, but are elusive to the grasp." Holmes, J. United States v. Thompson, 257 US 419, 433 (1921). We urge your...

...Conference tBuenos Aires, I968i, 457, 457. His remarks echo the more poetic words of Justice Holmes: "Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but are elusive to the grasp." The Western Maid, 257 US 4 I9. 433 iI922i. important one. For this reason,...

...corresponding legal duty. Holmes went on to particularize this view in The Western Maid, stating that ' ' [l]egal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp,' ' and that "there is no mystic over-law to which even the United States must bow."141 Hough responded...

...- in the context of a legal system without them. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: . . . legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but are elusive to the grasp.2 M. Cherif Bassiouni & Ziyad Motala: The Protection of Human Rights in African...

...it is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced...seen in the law but that are elusive to the grasp . . . To Harold Laski January 29, 1926 Dear Laski, Two letters from you, delightful as usual, this...

...monitoring of websites. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., observed that "legal obligations that arise but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law, but that are elusive to the grasp."86 Internet torts are similarly elusive because, unlike traditional torts, they are not committed...

...equally important as points one and two, because, as Justice Holmes once put it: "Legal [rights and] obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law but are elusive to the grasp."15 2. The Particular Importance of the Rule of Law in the EU/EC Context The...

...better illustrated than by the Supreme Court of the United States in Slocum v. The Delaware, Lackawana & Western R. Co., decided April 10, 1950. There is...will convince you that you should favorably report Senator Johnson's Resolution, and that the Senate should reject Reorganization Plan No. 7. I do not...

...it is said that the decisions have recognized that an obligation is created in the case before us. Legal obligations that exist but cannot be enforced are ghosts that are seen in the law, bat that are elusive to the grasp. The leading authority relied upon is The Siren. 7 Wall. 152, 19...