New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-11

A writer in the Paris National gives an
amusing description of legal procedure
which was Of very venerable age and royal pa
rsntage ina province OF loyalty and law-loving
Prussia, but which had sentence OF death and
execution done upon it rather summarily and
unceremonously IN the month of October last
by the Supreme CouH OF the Kingdom.
Ia the province OF Pomerania, Charles NIL, OF
fighting memory, issued royal decree and at
fxed thereunto the red mark of his sword-hilt,
which made the same dear unto the hearts OF
the trus,y burghers OF Grelfswald, and more es-
pecially 30 TO the daughters of their loins, which
did enact and ordain, that If a wooing swain
promised matrimOny TO his lady-love, and she
thereby influenced. had given imprudent proof Of
her affections, he rendered himself liable to be
summoned, tined and condemned into matrimony
And even il on the occasion ofthe execution the
sulprt were mute, the law, through the mouth of
the nudge, became the interpreter of his consent
and pronounced the necessary Yes, before ad-
justing the fatal moose.
This was time -honored institution, good
seader, as you may well suppose-a clear attest
alton OF the wisdom of their ancestors to the
Greifswalders and you must not be surprised if
the Oldest and the wiseSt among them, when the
0minous invasion, in the shape OF a Supreme
Court decree, was promulg gated, gave way TO
weeping and gnashing Of teeth. So il has been
m fact. The excitement among them is such that
they have lost the power of utterng that most
conservative exclamation, What next being
somewhat in the frame of mind YOU must have
been In, lift ever befell you TO have a conscious
ness of being pursued by ghost What next
There is no next Conservatism is gone clean
by default
IL seems that IN an evil hour, for the wisdom OF
then ancestors and their own potency, the Judges
OF The Court of Appeals at Greifswald. in accord.
ance with precedent and authority. solemnlv
condemned young man TO conJugality, and at.
Ter the formal preliminaries for passing him un.
der the yoke Were made, respite arrived IN the
shape of an order from the Supreme Court. 10
furnish the grounds OF the Courts decision. and
the law upon which It was based The Greifs
valid Court, standing on It's dignity, referred the
higher jurisdiction tothe royal decree, and briefed
m due form the text and the comment and
the practice OF century and half And o.irab,le
d'e'si that tribunal as If IN mockery Of every
mns which had grown Obj In sanc;i,y, issued the
following levelng and anarchical decree:
Aeeofding 70 The report OF the Court OF Appeal
" hehhwAo, the sentence pronounced in the case
- against - would, accorsliny 10 the me-
Scc o. me District Court, have TO be carried into ex
esunon BY a compulsory marriage Bui snch a
leisure wholly repusnant to the essence ~ ths
Ss.nmoniA contract, which requires a frse con.
~ Ms execution ofthe sentence therefore cannot
ds.yss snes oy any law The s6th paragraph OF the
ssscr, NE 2ls, Of July, 1916, which eats of the
49, on legal decisions cannot be extended To-
ses Of the Ss pems and the customary prac,
rnsss,d.of csns. ~aca can authorize anything so
unns.Iu-o. cannot be regarded as having anv LEGAL
validity Inc Dl'sIie. Court Is therefore hereby eS.
ressiy IoIoleden 70 proceed any further with the
conPuisoy marriage service, in which The Affirming
.oId Of The defendant before the clergyman Der.
sornns must be spoken BY the Judge. T''
Royal suTseme Tribunal.
feessdl "Mpmxk
"Ss'im, oss. g. ISL"