Correspondence the previous day in court. Judge Parry in quired, "Why did you not apply to me at the end of the day?" "I was just getting up to speak," said the man, "but you was off your chair and bolted through your door like a blooming rabbit." — London Law Notes.
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Magistrate. — "What is the charge against this old man?" Officer. — "Stealing some brimstone, your Honor. He was caught in the act." Magistrate (to prisoner). — "My aged friend, couldn't you have waited a few years longer?" — Chicago Tribune.
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advance an idea toward the betterment of jurisprudence along these lines. It seems to me that what we need is To the Editor of the Green Bag: — not so much reform as uniformity in In your article, "A Wig Shop in the procedure. It is true that the old Temple," in theGreenBag of April, 1912, technical rules of procedure, especially you state that there are only two or of pleadings, should be abolished, so far three wig makers in the world, all in as is practicable and consistent with the London, a remark which I would wish sensible and at the same time certain to contradict, as the business which I administration of justice. The idea of carry on has been in my family since requiring a party to reply to an answer 1760 and I still supply all the wigs for containing neither a set-off, counter the Irish Bar, either long or short, as claim nor a cross petition, simply because well as every description of legal gown an opposing counsel chooses to plead and brief bag. facts or matters which he could prove I remain, under the general denial, instead of Yours truly, having these matters denied by opera S. A. BLACK tion of law, is ridiculous — but this Dublin, May 9, 1912. practice prevails in many states. [We of course had no intention to The idea, too, of requiring counsel to ignore a business which has had an move to strike arguments and expatiaancient and remarkable history. Our tions of an opposing counsel from a correspondent, the "Bar Wig and Robe pleading, or run the risk of having them Maker to the Hon. Society of Benchers admitted on him, if he does not fully and the Bar of Ireland," will perhaps deny them, is both unreasonable, dila excuse our ignorance of matters lying tory and unjust. If parties sufficiently somewhat outside the province of an plead so that each know what the other American law journal. — Ed.] claims, it should be sufficient. Many other things in pleading at present are very faulty. A NATIONAL CODE OF Writs, also, need reforming and some PROCEDURE of them abolishing. Why should a party To the Editor of the Green Bag: — be required to test the illegal acts, or While so much is being said about the acts done without jurisdiction of a reform of code procedure, I take it that court, officer, or municipal body, by the profession will be glad to hear from certiorari under the codes of some anybody who can, or thinks he can, states? If the act so done is final, it is
