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 THE LIGHTER SIDE I'm a man of honor. Anybody in town you don't like?" The Senator assured him that there was not; but the man looked incredulous and said, " Put on your hat, Squire, and take a walk down the street with me. See anybody you don't like, just throw up your thumb, an' I'll pop him." — The Bar. Dead as She Ever Will Be. — An Ohio law yer tells of a client of his — a German farmer, a hard-working, plain, blunt man who lost his wife not long ago. The lawyer had sought him out to express his sympathy; but to his con sternation the Teuton laconically observed: "But I am again married." "You don't tell me! " exclaimed the legal light. " Why, it has been but a week or two since you buried your wife I" "Dot's so, my frent; but she is as dead as effer she vill be." Economy of the Unwritten Law. — "I thought your son was going in a lawyer's office to study?" "No; he has decided to practice the Un written Law; it is the least expensive course." Hungary Justice. — An Englishman was travelling in a wild part of Hungary, and made an application to a town magistrate, asking to hear how justice was conducted. The magistrate, gorgeous in a magnificent Magyar costume, received him cordially, and sent for any case which might be awaiting trial. A gigantic gendarme in an immense cocked hat ushered in a prisoner, a plaintiff, and a witness. The prisoner was accused of stealing the plaintiff's goose. "Well, sir," said the magistrate to the accuser, " what have you to say?" "Please, your high mightiness, the prisoner stole my goose." The magistrate turned to the witness. "What have you to say?" "Please, your high mightiness, I saw the prisoner steal the goose." The magistrate then delivered the sen tence. "I give you a fortnight in prison," he said to the accused " for stealing the goose." To the plaintiff he said, " I give you a fortnight in prison for not looking after your goose,"

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and turning to the witness, " You shall have a fortnight in prison for not minding your own business." — Ohio Law Bulletin. Comity in Justice Court. — Two Vermont lawyers were trying a case before a rural jus tice and one of them, who represented the de fendant, took occasion to cite a Massachusetts case that was on all fours with his contention. His opponent nudged the justice and whis pered, " Look out! He's trying to ring in a Massachusetts case on you." The justice pounded on his table and asked to see the book. It was handed to him. He examined it with all the concentrated wisdom of ages in his countenance, and returned it, saying, "Mr., this here court may not be a lawyer, but it ain't to be imposed upon that wayl That's a Mass'chusetts case. Judgment for the plaintiff." The Drama of the Law. — " C'est toute la trage'die, toute la come'die humaine que met en scene sous nos yeux 1'histoire de nos lois." This motto, fitly chosen by Maitland for his edition of the Year-books, is well exemplified in the posthumous volume of the great legal historian's work which has just been issued by the Selden Society. Here we have, indeed, all the tragedy and all the comedy of life displayed before our eyes, and much of the moving interest which attends the un folding of the drama. There is, for instance, the typical case of Gyse v. Bandewyn, brought by an outraged husband for the recovery of his wife pursuant to the provision of the Statute of Westminster II. — an enactment which reflects the lawless spirit pervading society after the Baron's war which struck at the very heart of domestic life. It sounds odd, though, to find the defendant pleading that " the statute gives a suit to the husband only in respect of the chattels taken with his wife . . . and we came to such a place, and there found her dressed in the clothes that we had given her, and she followed us." Then there is the action for trespass, Petstede v. Marreys, brought by a lady to whom the third part of the beasts in a park had been assigned in dower by A, who afterwards came " with force and arms " and took and carried away the third part belonging to her dower, and the overruling of the attempt to abate the writ, on