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 SIR JOHN HOLLAM addressing the jury, the judge might retire to his own room for luncheon; thus the busi ness of the court was not suspended for a moment, and the professional men played

the case, when he was the only man in court who was not physically and mentally ex hausted. We no longer lock up juries for the night, if they do not agree on their

SIR JOHN HOLLAM the part of Stevenson's cow to the engine. Sir John tells us that the court at Guildhall met at half-past nine in the morning, and often sat till nine o'clock at night, or later. Sometimes grave injustice arose from the judge insisting on continuing the hearing of

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verdict. In Sir John's opinion, until a comparatively recent period, cases both civil and criminal were decided upon imperfect evidence. The discovery and production of documents, and the power to admin ister interrogatories to a litigant have