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 A Century of English Judicature. sion at counsel on both sides, raising diffi culties and objections, and at last, when the point was cleared, handing the conclusive document to the Lord Chief Justice, who meanwhile had often been leaning back in his chair in amused enjoyment of the scene.

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on the other hand, he delivered the judgment of the court oftener than any of the puisnes. When he does undertake to formulate his views he gives fully the process by which he reaches his conclusion. While not so pro fuse in the use of authorities as Willes, his

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but always ready to intervene at the psycho logical moment and bear off the honors of a point, or to enforce the conclusion in a judg ment of inimitable force and diction." It is obvious that the law reports furnish no adequate memorial of the services of such a character. But the volume of his work is im mense. Hisnameappearsinalmost everycase, and although his opinions are often admir ably terse he hardly ever simply concurred;

review of the cases is always thorough and interesting. He had no graces of style or Hashes of imagination, but every conclusion is worked out with the hard headed and closely knit logic of his race. With a mind as vigorous as Jessel's, and a humor, when called for, as caustic, he was always con scientiously scrupulous in the discharge of his judicial functions. Turner v. Walker, I Q. B. 118, illustrate his candor.