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 Rh FACETIÆ. IN a Western justice court, a question arising as to certain powers of receivers, counsel in reading an authority to the court came across the words SHI generis, which he translated, in all soberness, to the court as meaning that the officer so described had a right to sue generally. The judge accepted the translation as perfectly correct, until a smile among the lawyers present raised a doubt in his mind. IN a New York court the following answer was filed in a >' horse " suit : — "The defendant further answering said com plaint, alleges that on the i3th day of August, 1891, the plaintiff and defendant exchanged horses; the plaintiff giving the defendant a mare, and the defendant giving the plaintiff a pair of mules."

THE following bequest is taken from a will recently filed for probate in Genesee County, N. Y. : " To Amanda R. Gregory my shawl that was my brother's wife."

ENGLISH AS SHE is WROTE. — " In the week im mediately preceding her death, Elizabeth Fuidge, while suffering under the illness of which she died and in the immediate expectation of death who was then staying at Weston-Supcr- Marefor her health, told Mary Fishef to take the keys of the dressing case and box and to keep the same." A Pennsylvania testator recently provided that an interest in land devised to his daughter should, in case of her death without issue, be " reversible to my right consanguinary heirs." — General Digest. AN amusing instance of bumptiousness and affectation of superior knowledge on the part of a medical man receiving a wholesome check at the hands of a juryman is recorded in Lord Cockburn's '•Circuit Journeys." A woman was being tried for the murder of her child, and it appeared from the evidence that the child's throat was crammed full of bits of coal, and that there were marks of a thumb and two fingers on the outside of the neck. These practical tests, however, had little effect upon medical opinion. Whenever any of the murderous appearances, such as the finger-marks on the neck,

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were brought to the attention of one of the doctors called for the defence, the scientific gentleman, to show his vast experience, stated that however much these things might startle the ignorant, they were of no consequence to a person of large practice, and that he himself had seen hundreds of children born with identical marks. " Ay, but, Doctor," said one of the jurymen, of a severely practical turn of mind, " did ye ever see ony o' them born wi' coals i' their mooth?" AT the banquet of the Virginia Bar Association, the wine being a little slow in materializing, a cer tain judge obtained a bottle with great difficulty. Proud of his success, he exclaimed, " Gentlemen, my strong right arm secured this champagne, — I acquired it by feudal tenure." "Well," remarked a brother lawyer as he poured out a copious draught, " we will soon hold it in free and common soakage (socage)." "OUR Animal Friends " ought to be apprised of a very frequent form of cruelty to animals among railway switchmen,— treading on the frogs. WE expect to see a question raised whether in an action by a landlord for rent, he may recover anything for " distress."

NOTES.

Nor long ago there died in Mexico a miser of the name of Moneche. His relatives then peti tioned the authorities to prohibit the interment of the body; for the deceased, too miserly to use ink and paper, had tattooed his will all over his chest with some red pigment. The court, however, decreed that the remarkable " human document" should be copied, and the copy duly attested in the presence of four witnesses. This posthumous will was declared to possess the same legal value as any other will. — La Tribuna.

SOME excitement has been caused by a judge fining a high sheriff five hundred guineas the other day for want of respect to his position; but Jus