The very institution of the trust being a creature of judicial precedent, not statute, Melville's caricature in Moby-Dick of precedent would seem as superficial as it is lyrical | Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University Law School
In Moby-Dick, Melville, one suspects, is letting us know what he really thinks about judicial precedent: “Nor is this the end. Desecrated as the [whale’s] body is, a vengeful ghost...
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