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 Scenes in Court from the Year Books. The demandant's Attorney. " And we pray judgment if from that time he could be here at the hour of pleading, since it is fifteen leagues away from here. Besides he began his journey too late." The Tenant. " I travelled night and day." Mallore J. " What did you do when you came to the water and could not pass? Did you raise the hue and cry and the menee, for otherwise the country would have no knowledge of your hindrance?" The Tenant. " No, Sir. I was not so much acquainted with the law, but I cried and hullooed " (jeo criay e brayay). The demandant's Attorney. " Judgment

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outright of his default, and we pray seisin of the land." Mallore J. " Will you accept the aver ment that he was hindered as he says?" The demandant's Attorney. " If you ad judge so, Sir, but since he has admitted that he did not raise the menee, judgment of his admission." Hengharri J. " Keep your days until to morrow." And on the morrow they were adjourned to the Quinzein of Trinity, which to some seemed strange. (30 & 31 Ed. I. Br. Chr. 30, v. 122.) Not to us, familiar with the law's delay. But space is limited, and we must drop the curtain.— Edward Manson in the Law Quarterly Review.

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HO cares how well the bow is strung, How finely wrought in every part, If, when the silver cord has rung, The arrow has not reached the heart?