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et idem, unless it be clearly ultra vires. And here 1 we are content to leave the matter.2 THE PERSONNEL OF THE SIAMESE BENCH OF SUPREME JUDICATURE. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Bench is a red-headed pirate who always went armed to the teeth until he lost them. He is now armed to the gums. He wears red mittens gummed to his arms. His decisions have never been ques tioned. He has never made any. The other eight justices are three persons named Killyloo. The first is leonine but inade quate. His diction is delphic but ambiguous, at times even amphibious. He is also ambidex trous, being unable to write with either hand. His younger brother, Jimmy, weighs twenty pounds less, which detracts from the weight of his decisions. He is a brilliant example of what is known as judicial levity. The other three members of the bench are twins, each of the two older being twins with the youngest, on the principal that twins that are twins to the same twin are twins to each other or anything else. CONTRACTS AND CRAZY CONTRACTS. 1. Pedro, a push-cart peddler, made an oral contract for the purchase of a banana with Flor ida Fearne. Owing to a cessation of revolutions in South America fruit rose rapidly in price. After doing half the work Parsons stopped be cause he obtained a more advantageous contract with John, the Orangeman. Shortly afterwards Dart died, neither he nor Adams having dis covered the mistake. When Sixto Lopez learns the facts, can the Bank recover on a quantum meruit i 2. A statute provides that a bushel of coal shall mean forty miles. Dane, a coal-stealer under a charter party, took dower in a cargo be longing to East. The coal decayed rapidly owing to act of neither party. Thus it hap pened that Parsons paid one and one-half times as much as an accurate measurement would have required. Under this state of facts, what is Fearne's common-law liability to Parsons or to Tidd or to East or to anyone else you can think of? ' Supra, p. 000, 1. o. ' If you want more, go back (i;) and begin again. — Ed. (a) I The Brief i.

Would it have made any difference if Dane had been a sutler? a cutler? a butler? a danscuse i 3. Rewrite everything you have written, leav ing out the mistakes. - 4. If I paint my neighbor's house a disagree able color, under the impression that I have no right so to do, and he licks the paint off and dies, can I recover anything from the heirs on a quan tum valebant I Could I if he knew it was paint? if he knew it was paint, but thought it was green? or neither? or both? Rearrange the facts in the foregoing quesI tions in any way you please so long as you don't know the answers, and then answer 10. You them won't the have same time as before. for this anyway.

recent cases. Agencv — Power Coupled with an In terest — Revocation. — An intestate wishing to probate his will deputed one to do so for him. He then died and afterwards ratified the agency. Hell!* The pardon came too late. Ramesesv. Anargyros, 6 Hg. 41. This case goes none too far. It is obvious that a fraudulent moribund cannot claim the benefit of his non compotency mentis. An act cannot be at once retroactive and perspective. Contracts — Implied Condition Subse quent — Public Policv. — Plaintiff sued on an insurance contract never made. One of the con ditions was that unpaid premiums should lapse. Several had in fact lapsed when defendant com pany died. Hello,1' that the condition not having been complied with, it was up to the jury to con strue the contract in accordance 5 with its terms. Gaston v. Alphonse, 2 Sunday Law Journal 999^. The essence of the contract is the meeting of minds. If they meet from opposite directions a head-on collision will result. If differently, otherwise. Which accounts for the tooth on the walrus. Torts — Trespass In Excelsis — Justifi able Force. — A man in a balloon, having money to throw to the birds, proceeded to do so. 3 Misprint. — Ed. s See note 4 supra. — Edward.
 * See note 3 supra. — Eddy.