ABSTRACT
Such a view of the function of law as a developing and adjustable body of doctrine would appear to implicate an entire denial of the possibility of legal exactness. But the reader is puzzled by a confusion in Jhering's thinking on that subject:
(1) On the one hand his notable contribution was his emphasis on the "freedom of adaptability of law to an end"; he ridiculed the absurdity of trying to create "detailed regulations for every case, juristic recipes for the decision of all possible law-suits" and "the impossibility of seeing before-hand the infinite variety and manifold formation of cases" or of making "the application of the law a purely mechanical thing, in which juridical thinking should be made superfluous by the law."
