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and half of it paid to a public hospital. The effect of this would be to remove a part of the commercial curse from legal medicine and raise the ethical standard of "Court physicians." It would also diminish insanity. Hundreds of jurors, after listening to expert testimony about anatomy, have tried

In a court of law you have opportu nity to assimilate any kind of wisdom permitted by your private mental meta bolism. The juryman is in better posi tion to learn than any other character

in the drama. The lawyers, the judges and the litigants stand in ﬁxed attitudes toward each human quarrel and so their receptivity is throttled. But the

to put themselves together again and gone mad; the asylums are full of them. Think of the sufferings of a juryman who

of the comedy in which he plays.

goes home in an electric car after having

you have been a juryman, you have

heard nine doctors declare that the jolting of a car produces premature

learned that you are not ﬁt to be a judge; that you would be ashamed to be a lawyer; that you will never come to court as litigant if you can help it; that if you are ever a witness you will answer the questions in as few words as possible and not act so foolishly as some witnesses you have seen; and that you can never be a sheriﬁ unless you weigh two hundred pounds. All these things are valuable to know. The wise citizen will not wish to shirk jury duty, but will welcome the opportunity to see how very human human beings are when they are under oath.

old age, ingrowing teeth and cirrhosis of the liver! And it gives a man no compensating courage, no restored

feeling of safety to have heard ten other doctors declare that a car can run over both your legs, cut them oﬂ above the knee, without doing you

any harm. Truly the law court is an excellent place in which to learn not only your social relations to your fellowmen but the anatomical relations of the organs with which nature has endowed you.

juryman is a dispassionate spectator

If

Systematic Classiﬁcation of the Law‘ By KARL GAREIS Pnorresson OF LAW AT MUNICH [Nola —- The problem of mapping out the subject-matter of the law in accordance with a philosophically sound system of classiﬁcation is one of obvious importance. The law is pre-eminently a systematic science, the progress of which is necessarily gauged by triumphs of analysis and co-ordination. The following extract from Pro fessor Gareis’s important work which has just been made accessible to American readers

in Mr. Kocourek's translation, is the third article on Legal Classiﬁcation which the Green Bag has published. The ﬁrst two were Professor Terry's “The Arrangement of the Law," appearing in the issue of September, 1910 (22 G. B. 499), and Dr. Andrews’ "The Classiﬁcation of Law," printed in the October, 1910, number (22 G. B. 556).

—Ed.] ‘Being pp. 93-114 of Prof. Garcia's "Introduction to the Science of Law" (part II, sections 14, 15

and 164). reproduced by courtesy of the Boston Book Co.