The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-29

ana teStam ent, leaves the whole or her property, verifying by this act. to the very letter, the words of the poet: !" Thou mak'st testament As workings do, giving thy sum of To that which hath too much
 As You Like It." III. 424. the Supreme Court of Illin- ois, in concluding the decision. said:
 Should such a criminal escape the justice of the state might be well in my judgment a single promine mt fact in this case, consistent with the innocence of the prisoner. but :" Tn law. no plea so tainted or cor But. being seasoned with a gracious
 voice,
 obscures the show of eviIT
 Merchant of venice."
 An example of law enforcement ca n be found in Measure for Measure, where the ambitious young deputy. in the deputy with power to govern, seeks. under an old statute. the life of Claudio, brother of Isabella. Lucio. in explaining 1t to Isabella, says: stHe-to give fear to use and liberty Which have for long run, by the hid
 eOuS law,
 As mice by lions-hath pick'd out an Under whose heavy sense your broth
 CTS life
 Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on And follows close the rigor of the
 statute,
 To make him an example"
 Tn answer to an appeal for the life of the young man. the deputy de- clares:
 We must not make scare-crow of Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape. till custom Their perch and not their terror"
 As critic on law, lawyers, sjuries and officers, of the law, Shakespeare has no equal Most of his criticisms truths. Hamlet, in that famous so- liloquy. denounces ''the laws delay. the inso1ence of office.'' In Az You Live It is a description of a jus tice: with eyes severe and beard of for
 mai cut.
 In Measure for Measure is the fol- lowing: "The jury, passing on the prisoners
 life,
 May in the sworn twelve have thief euiltier than him they try"
 Also:
 ."rhe law hath not been dead. though
 While in Much Ado About Nothing we are told that: ssssThe most peaeeabfea way for you if you do take a thief. is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
 King Lear exc1aims:
 "A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear: change places; and, handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the
 Hamlet inquiries of the grave dig-i ger:
 why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quid dities f now. his auilIets, his eases. his ten ures, and his tricks?''
 MT. Greenleaf, in his fouruth ex- ception to the rules rejecting hear say evidence, quotes Lord Chief Ba- ron Eyre as follows;
 ssThat they (dying deelaratfons) are declarations made in extremity, when the party is at the point of death, and when every hope of this world is gone when every motive to fa1sehsod is si- fenced, and the mind is induced by the most powerful consideration to speak the truth.''
 Probably no text-wrfter could have written the same exception in so few words and so full of meaning as did william Shakespeare in the following: .rrba +onoue. ff dviney men enforce
 attention Like deep harmony. Where words are
 scarce They are seldom spent in vain: They breathe truth that speak their |
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