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88 88 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. of the privilege, where some remodelling might not be amiss. There is no reason why our profession should not begin now to move in this reform. Hallam calls this privilege " that generous maxim of English law," and can find no more to say in its favor. But this is one of the cases where we must be just before we are generous. Every day, in some court of some city, justice is mis- carrying because of this extraordinary maxim (nothing in truth, but a misquotation consecrated by age), " nemo tenetur seipsum prodere." yohn H. Wigmore. Tokio, Japan, 1891.