The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-09
JEWS HARP TO BILL ARP ON TIE
NEW CODE.

have thus, dear Bill, set here and
there Il buoy like Il dubblc TO mark the
current of the new Code for your gui-
dance in your prospective professor
ship.
Our commonwealth had like to
have written cOn'H1OnpOOCrty-is now,
including her Territorial minority
just about eighty years Old. In her
progress through life, she has had
seven Codes, and this will make the
eighth, thus averaging one every ten
, the Medes and Persians III Iegisli"'tlVa
mutation.
: The wee bit Code of Harry TOul-
min" heads the column; next follows
"Turner's Digest;"# then comes the
great POindeXtcr Code mOl1,tntGRtttnt
ere pereaniuS;" next 10 him follows
Howard and Hutchinson )" then
, "Hutchinson's-solus; )" next follows
the Code OF 1857, the joint product of
the three great judicial luminaries of
that day-Sharkey, VIM. l.. Harris,
and II. Y. Ellel; then comes the anal
gam Code of 1871, adopted after the
hot press Of our late disastrous war.
AS the Code of November rrOX. is to
begin its active existence in our cigh-
tieth year, in this A. d. 1880, and is the
cighH Of the series, it may well be
called the" OctO Code y of Mississippi
The members of the profession are
greatly indebted to Judge Brame for
/ his annOtations of the changes from
the old law; and we hope they will be
published in pamphlet form for future
reference for our legal nayigators in
these waters, rs Mat. Murry's charts
are for the sailors of the sea. AS for
the book itself, il is one, which we, as
Mississippians have a right to be proud.
The arrangement is clear and perspic-
uOus; the paper, pure and white; the
type is admirable; the binding is sub
stantial; the index, that blessing to
the lawyers and judges, is quite per-
feet 1t is this quality that distinguish
es the PondeXter Code, and also the
Code of 1857. 1t was the lack of this
that exlinguished the Code of Hutch
insOn.
Besides these distinguishing quail
ties it has aoidc margin. Tho-e who
deal in futures, you know, require a
margin.
They are to Codes what cemeteries
are to cities, they'll soon be filled with
graves and epitaphs. This can be
illustrated by the following scrap of
"unWrittea histOry:"
Jews Harp had once the honor of
being II Rcprcscntdtirc man, but it
was at time when the Common Law
was booming around Us, and legisla-
tors were about as much of Use as the
9TH wheel to the cannon, they hung
on the tongue in the rear.
At the time aforesaid, i'm the place
at, to-wit, the Capitol, ,cc
happened to he passing the room of
brother member, when lac called Us
into his room aud thus opened the |
az wish you would look over that
Bill, and put il in proper shape for
me, will you?
We took the paper he handed to us
a young lawyer M the earlier days OF
Mississippi applied 10 Judge Turner Tor /
license TO practice law.
"What books have You read sir!' asked
he Judge.
The Young aSpiraut was not ~ the
slightest degree abaShcd aud answered
''Natel's Law Of Nations, the Federalist
md Considerable in Turner Digest.
lie emphasized the last and evidently
thought il was the tramp card that would
axe the trick,
The Judge smiled. told him 10 come over
% his Office and be would give him books
% read and also assist him iu other ways.
He did 50 aud in a few years became in
71ite Of his ecccntricitics. a leader 81 the
Bar in his section. aud before n jury was
aid % be inyineible.
This is another scrap of uuWHtieu history