Curiosities Of The Law Reporters Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Lawyers' Merriments Law is a serious matter, but the outside world seems to find in it a perpetual source of entertainment. Litigants and lawyers, courts and judges, and the very law itself, have furnished topics for scores of amusing volumes. Morison's Dictionary, with its seventeen thousand pages, to say nothing of the Appendix and many volumes of Supplement, is a vast repertory of learning, of much sound and of some bad law, but the curious reader will find not a little to amuse him in the situations presented by the cases reported, by the odd observations of the reporters, and the naive and pithy remarks of the judges. No one has attacked it, but any enthusiast who does so will find material for many gatherings of Curiosities. This treatment of the law and those who resort to its aid, or who are engaged in its administration, is perfectly legitimate, and there is no reason why outsiders should not laugh at what they find provokes to laughter. Ill drawn or absurd statutes, muddled or bizarre wills, may quite well be treated as Curiosities of Legislation, or as Whims of Testators, and many industrious authors have employed themselves in searching out and exhibiting such maladroit performances of legislators and draftsmen -lay or professional - and the confusion which they bring about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.