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Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, Horace W. Fuller, 344 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of inter est to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetia, anec dotes, etc. LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. Some of the " Old Virginia " Laws, if in force at the present day, would revolutionize our busi ness methods, as witness the following : — "Whatsoever person or persons shall buy or cause to be bought any marchandize, victualls, or any other thinge, coraminge by land or water to the markett to be sold, or make any bargaine, contract or promise for the haveinge or buying of the same . . . before the said marchandize, vic tualls, or other thinge shall bee at the markett readie to be sold; or make any motion by word, letter or message or otherwise to any person or persons for the enhaunsing of the price, or dearer sellinge of any thinge or thinges above mentioned, or else disswade, move or stirr any person or per sons cominge to the marquett, to abstaine or forbeare to bringe or conveye any of the things above rehearsed to any markett as aforesayd, shall be deemed and adjudged a forestaller. And yf any person or persons shall offend in the things before recited and beinge thereof dulie convicted or attaynted shall for his or theire first offence suffer imprisonment by the space of two mounths with out baile or maineprize, and shall also loose and forfeite the value of the goods soe by him or them bought or had as aforesayd; and for a second offence. . . shall suffer imprisonment by the space of one halfe yeare. . . and shall loose the double value of all the goods. . . soe bought. . . and for the third offence. . . shall be sett on the pillorie. . . and loose and forfeit all the goods and chattels that he or they then have to theire owne use, and also be committed to prison, there to remayne duringe the Gover nor's pleasure."

FACETIÆ. A good story is told of Judge Clearwater of Kingston, N. Y. A prominent resident of one of the county towns who had been drawn to serve as a juror wrote the Judge that he had been sick and was still too ill to leave the house, and asking to be excused from serving. The Judge imme diately dictated a letter expressing his sorrow, and venturing the hope that his correspondent would soon recover, and excusing him from jury duty. Now among the other things which make the Judge's life a pretty full and active one is the presidency of the board of trustees of the Willwyck Rural Cemetery Association, of which E. B. Codwise, the well-known civil engineer, is the con sulting engineer. At the time of dictating his letter to the sick juryman the Judge dictated one to Mr. Codwise. In some manner the letters got into the wrong envelopes. Fancy, therefore, the horror of the sick man on receiving the following laconic and strictly businesslike note from the Judge : — My Dear Sir : — I should like to see you about a cemetery lot at your earliest convenience. Yours truly, A. T. Clearwater. Wh1le at Vienna last winter, Mark Twain re ceived a marked copy of a New York paper giv ing statistics showing the increase of crime in Connecticut in the last seven years. He clipped the article and returned it, with this comment on the margin; " This is just the time that I have been absent from the state." A ted1ous preacher had preached the assize sermon before Lord Yelverton. He came down, smiling, to his lordship, after the service, and, expecting congratulations on his effort, asked, "Well, my lord, how did you like the sermon?" "Oh, most wonderfully," replied Yelverton; " it was like the peace of God, it passed all under standing; and, like his mercy, I thought it would have endured forever." 273