Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-16

Ln6sJec0nlcal terms O1ln0laW 2#' slNOW,SY
for example s said he, s.I never could
comprehend what you meant by dock !
ing an entail. 5 .sih nj dear DOCTOR
replied the counsel, go don { wonder
at that, but I will soc exp ain. The
definition Of the phrase isthe doing Of
that to which your professio never
consents suffering q recovery 3. 3, S5Y s{
- remember well !, = says Charles
Phillips N s'Curran and his cotempo-
raries, = Fat the Sligo summer assizes
for 49, 2, being of CO unset ia the case
Of the king against Fenton for the MUIR
der Of Major Hillas in a duel, when
old Judge Fletcher thus capped his
summing up to the jury: Gen tie
men, it's my duty to lay down
the law to you. and will. The
law says that the killing Of q man in
= duel is murder; therefore in the dis
charge ofmy duty tell you 3D.: But
1 tell you at the same time q fairer
duel than this never heard of in the
whole course of mylife!' tits scarcely
necessary to add that there was an
immediate acquittal, !. s.
"Leather-lunged Scriven," the Irish
barrister, was q very ugly man; his
complexion was like wash-leather,
which had never been washed. Being
thigh tory politics, his practice in
the Irish law courts frequently brought
him in collision with Daniel O. Council.
O'Connell was once retained in a Ker-
ry case, in which the venue or place OF
trial was laid in Dublin: O'Connell
WAS instructed to try and change the
venue, so that the case might
be tried in Tralee This motion
was resisted by Scriven, the counsel
opposed to O'Connell Hestated that
he had no knowledge of Kerry, and
had never been in that part of Ire
land. ooh" replied O'Connell "we'll
be glad to welcome my learned friend,
and show him the lovely lakes of Kill
arney." "Yes,'' growled Scriven,
Il suppose, the bottom OF them
Indeed, no. retorted Dan, land
for this simple reason-your face
would brighten the fish, n
Dean Swift, having preached All as
size sermon in Ireland was invited to
dine with the Judges, and, having by
his sermon considered the uses and
abuse Of the law, he then pressed g.
little hard upon those counselors who
plead causes which they know in. their
consciences to be wrong. When din
ner was over and the vine began, to
circulate, a young barrister retorted
upon the dean, and, after some fenc-
ing, the counselor asked him: IF the .
devil were to die, might not q parson
be found who for money would preach
his funeral serm on?" e Yes, SIR quick
ly replied Swift. II would gladly be
the man, and / would then give the !.
devil bis due, as have this day done
his children, " & ,3g5Sg SIS s, ii n
In speaking OF q learned sergeant :
who gave a confused and elaborateex-
planation Of some point of law, Cur /
ran observed that whenever that !,
grave counselor endeavored to unfold !
q principle of law, he put him in mind,
OF afool whom he once saw try 70
open an oyster with a rolling PIN
! An, attorney in Dublin having died
ingreat poverty q shilling Inscription
was set on foot to pay the expenses
ofhis funeral. . Most Of the ATTORNEYS 4
and barristers having subscribed one
ofthem applied to Mr. To,sr, inter-
ward Lord Chief Justice Norbu,'y, ex.
pressing the hope that he would also
subscribe his shilling. tsOnly + shil-#
ling, said Toler, only q shilling to
bury an attorney. sHere is Il guinea; /
fgo and bury one-and- twenty OF then,.' 81
+ When Lord Thurlo w Was lord cham !
cellor Pepper Arden was master az the
rolls. The chancellor greatly disIiked
Mr.. Arden, and frequently sho we'd his
distaste with little nitigati on. When
q messenger once went with his honor,s3
rpntIfaf nd gfnorskc mi r In, ,,