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 A Centîiry of English Judicature. without learning may make them recoil." "Some breaches of good manners are breaches of law also." "The decree in this case is a matter of course unless the court and the laws of this country are to be recon structed with a view to this particular case."

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great powers of thought and expression.1 The contrast between Knight-Bruce and Turner in their habits of thought and mode of expression—the vivacity and dry humor of the one and the steadiness and gravity of the other—blended admirably in result.2

SIR ROBERT PHILLIMORE.

See his highly characteristic opinion in Thomas v. Roberts, where the father of a child had joined a new sect and had gone to live in "a sort of spiritual boarding-house,'' to which, as a home for the child, KnightBruce said he would prefer a "camp of gypsies." His earlier opinions are models of composition, but the habit of deciding a case in a few words increased on him, so that the books give little evidence of his

From 1866-70 several distinguished chan cery lawyers sat in this court for brief 1 Thomas v. Roberts, 3 De G. & Sm. 758; Walter v. Seife, 4 do. 315; Prince Albert v. Strange, 2 do. 652; Ke Ciimmirtg, i De G., M. & G. 559; Kekewich г. Man ning, i do. 176: Burgess v. Burgess, 3 do. 896; Briggs v. Penny, 3 De G., M. & S. 525. 2 A fine illustration of their benevolent wisdom is their disposition of the case of Stourton v. Stourton, S D. M. & G. 760, where it was sought to interfere with the educa tion of a child who was being reared by his guardians in a different faith from that professed by the boy's father. The judges had an interview with the child, and Lord Justice Knight-Bruce expressed the opinion that " the