Lawyers' Merriments

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Description
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 naïve 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.
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Contents
Lawyers' Merriments
Of A Strange Case (Ein Wunderlicher Fall)
Curiosities Of The Law
The Humour Of Lawyers
Law Lyrics
Early Scots Makers
Early Laws And Conveyancing In Verse
Rhyming Wills
Metrical Versions Of Codes And Text-Books
Comic Text-Books
Facetious Precedents
Instruction In Law By The Novel
Proverbs
Memorial Verses
Humour In Indexes And Dictionaries
Law As The Subject Of Didactic Poetry
Law Reports In Verse
Plaidoyers Burlesques
Causes Grasses. Shrove-Tide Licence
Elegante Jurisprudenz. Whimsical Dissertations and Theses
The Legal Prosecution And Excommunication Of the Inferior Animals
Law Procedure Applied In Illustration Of Serious Subjects
Processus Sathana
Litigacio Sathane Contra Genus Humanum
Processus Luciferi
Historischer Processus Juris
Infantium In Limbo Querela
Arrets D'amour De Martial D'auvergne
Law In Daily Life
The Psalter For Litigants
Law Books And The Index Expurgatorius
The Waxen Nose Of The Law
Mouse Traps
Nequitia Advocatorum
Livres De Luxe
Illustrations In Law Books
Lawyers' Logic
Sex
Doctors Of Laws
Recreations Of Lawyers
The Lawyers' Library
Index
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Author Details
David Murray, LL.D., F.S.A