The comet., 1880-10-02

unfrendly un tiie "nIo to the prosperity Of the
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JEWS HARP TO BILL ARP. ON THE
NEW CODE.
1t is barely possible, dear Bill, that
when it is noised abroad outside OF
our borders that our femme cOucrt
are "femme sOled," that the fair sex
will flock to our Eden. We will then
need no artificial emigration societies,
for the poet tells us that "Everywhcre
that Mary went, the lamb was sure to
go.n When the Marys come among
us, the lambs will be sure to follow, to
"cast Sleeps eyes.
1t is generally the case that any rad
ical change by law, of the domestic
relations, leads TO II fruitful source of
litigation. Thus it was on hepassage
of the various married woman's stat
utes. They were Il perfect bonanza to
the legal profession, and our Reports
fairly bristle with cases on this one
theme. Whether the same thing is to
follow the recent act of marital
emancipation, is only to he answered
in the sweet "bye and bye" As II
patriot, we can devoutly say we hope
not as Il lawyer-welI, we won't say
anything on that point. And with
that aspiration, we pass from the sub
ject to Others of less Importance.
We will note only in passing, how
items are thrown into more regular
order, 50 rs to secure the fat. How
acceptances of bills must be i'm writ
ing, so that hereafter the "pd'OL may
denur." How various and sundry
forms of proceedings are given to SIM
plify the course of justice. How it is
take usuy upon penalty of Il forfeit
ure of his interest. How letters of at
torney don't become dGtiu1lct at once
on the death Of the principal, in GER
tain contingencies. How judgments
don't require the execution papers to
be issued within II year and day, to
Keep them alive, but may be walked
up without sci. .tu. after that time,
if within the allotted space of their
vitality. How we are to have no
more false face conveyanccs, that is Il
deed in fee on its face, and a pdr0L
mortgage underneath. How the mort |
name laws, so speak, which were Il
disgrace to the State, are themselves
dead now.
These, and other changes too tedi-
Gus toneed comment, ~ 2)dSS;" you
know what that means, don't you?
My memory has floated very far
back to-day. I've been reading an
old case. 1t occurred just three hund-
red years ago, exactly. 1t was won
lerful case; it originated in the Curl
Ous coincidence that one of the parties
lied on the day of judgment, and the
other was in VeI1tre SC mere; you'll
ind it in 1st Coke's Reports, 2l9. 1t
was litigated in the hey-day of Queen
Bess, when she was fighting with half
he crowned heads of Europe. Coke
vas one of the attorneys.
The name of the defendant has
become immortal and shines in the
cgal armament as brightly rs his
Ia mesake Perry Byshe Shelly in that
# the poetic sky. Books have been
written upon it, Fedin leaves (nOt
1anny Fcrns) have been strewcd all
,ver it. Preston and Coke, Black
tone and Kent and all authors on
Real Estate, have touched it. 1t rose ,
ike great island in the judicial cur
ent of the sea, and became II land
mark which seemed to defy the
hanges of time. {
What the TyphOon is to the sculptor,
I. the sleeping Venus to the painter,
he rule in Shelly's ease was To the !
member of the legal profession OF our
ay.
The lawyer who didn't know all
bout it was as unfit for heaven as the r
'irginia politician who didn't under {
and the Revolutions of 9S and 80" c
This rule of of Shelly's ease, though :
orn of Feudalism, crept into Allo- 5
ealism and drifted with the Common II
aw wherever it went, and 50 we had I
here. \,
Oar law makers made dig TO uproot o
as early as 1922, but a sprout was \
# to bear on personally and our :
ersonalty, you know, used to be peo- 4
e of color, so-callcd. But now it's g
prOoted at last, root and branch. s.
For the benefit of the Young MEM !.
srs of the profession as the old relic f
10 pass out Of existence, we quote Y
le rule UcrJdtiBl It itcrdtiH1. a
"When the ancestor hy any gift or n a
,nveyance, takes an estate Of Free Of
DID, and i'm the same gift or convey /
zee, an estate is limited either medi- q y
ely or Immediately, to his heirs i'm n
e or in tail, that always in such Il