Law and lawyers
Subtitle: curious facts and characteristic sketches
By: David Laing Purves.
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Clark, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Law -- England -- Anecdotes.; Law -- England -- Humor.; Practice of law -- England.
Notes: Originally published: Phildelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1868.
Table of contents: title: A claim to recognition : Lord Kames' story; title: A cool hand : John Clerk; title: A good apology; title: A judge in the stocks : Lord Camden; title: "A mere novelty" : Lord Stowell's phrase; title: A mistake of Lord Tenterden; title: A nice objection; title: A pastoral paradox; title: A very nice distinction; title: American justice : the two quakers.