Cardozo, from "Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon" (1917, Court of Appeals of New York)

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: "The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal."

From Corbin on Contracts

Quote: "When the skies begin to fall, Justice removes the blindfold from her eyes and tilts the scales." (3)