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for the momentous and lamentable results of his dilatoriness; and hereby hangs the tale. Mr. L alleges in his statement of claim that he required the swallow-tailed coat to qualify him to appear at a large evening party given by the parents of the lady of his heart, whose hand he intended to solicit for mally in the course of the evening, during the valse, the quadrille, or the mazurka. Unprovided with the magic evening dress, he was in the sad pre dicament of the guest in the parable, " which had not on a wedding garment;" but wiser than that person, he did not put in an appearance. Mean while "the other fellow," taking a mean advantage of him, went, and saw, and conquered, — proposed, was accepted, and is now the cherished bridegroom of the beautiful Helen. The court is now called on to estimate in rubles and copecks the extent of the loss inflicted on the confiding Mr. L by his dilatory tailor, and to insist upon a substantial fee from the latter for being taught the truth of the old adage, that " a stitch in time saves nine." — Irish Law Times. The late Matt. H. Carpenter, in a case which was litigated in the courts of Wisconsin for a great number of years, in the prayer for relief used the following language : — "And that such other orders, regulations, special proceedings, and unheard of remedies may be from time to time, in this action, invented, ordered, and had, as the nature of the case may require; and that this plaintiff may from time to time, and always (for he never expects to see the end of this action) have such other and further, or new and extraordinary relief as the nature of this action may require; and that everybody else may have all the relief they are entitled to in this action, according to law and ac cording to the decisions of the Supreme Court, made or to be made; and that, too, as fully and amply as anybody can hereafter suggest, and as the plaintiff may hereafter have occasion to ask when he sees how this thing works." — American Law Reporter.

Accent 2Deatfjjtf. The Hon. Sir Henry Manisty died in London January 31. In the afternoon of Friday, January 24, he was smitten with a stroke of paralysis while trying the action of Mace v. Forster in Queen's Bench Court. Mr. Justice Manisty was the sec-

MR. JUSTICE MANISTY. ond son of the Rev. James Manisty, late of Edlingham, Northumberland, and was born Dec. 13, 1808. He was educated at Durham Grammar School, was admitted a solicitor in 1830, practised as junior partner of the firm of Megginson, Pringle & Manisty, of Bedford Row, till 1842, when, on April 20, he was admitted a student of Gray's Inn. He was called to the bar on April 23, 1845, was made Queen's Counsel July 7, 1857, bencher of his inn July 22 in that year, and treasurer 1861, and was appointed a justice of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, in November, 1876. He was a judge of more than ordinary ability, and long before his elevation to the bench had won an enviable reputation in the profession.

Mr. Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, a legal writer of wide reputation, died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb ruary 18. His father was Jacob Abbott, well known as the author of the " Rollo Books " and many other popular works. Mr. Abbott was born in Boston in 1830, and was graduated at the New York University in 1850. After spending a year at the Cambridge Law School, he continued his