Seventeenth Annual nsylvania Bar Assiet CEDFORD SPRINGS, PA 1. The Seventeenth Annual Medias Eu Association was calle 1 to order ar Hotel at 2 o'clock p. m., President U the chair. FIRST DAY, AFTERNOON SESS TIRESIDENT: Gentlemen of the Pne Association and Guests. The Sevente nth and now open. The first thing on the progra is Address. I have chosen as my subject "Law and the 7t of Legislation"-au ambitious subject; r at tos kr How ambitious until I commenced to write t PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS red Wat is law? If I asked you this question ar wait for an answer, likely to your lips would spr. g the ne definition: "Municipal law is a rule of cry i conduct, ribed by the supreme power in a State, commanding what is right, and prohibiting what is wrong." It you thought the question was asked seriously, you would not speak, for you would remember that every commentator has criticised this definition as inadequate. Or it, Beutnam said: "On the subject of Law Municipal, he sets on as i |