Legal Facetiae: Satirical and Humorous (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Willock

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330486110 ISBN 13 : 9781330486115

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

I yE SATIRICAL AND HUMOROUS. An A uthor. As crafty lawyers to acquire applause, Try various arts to get a doubtful cause, So does an author, rummaging his brain, By various methods try to entertain. Pasquin. Law. Is etymologically that which is laid down, and is used in the most appropriate sense to signify some general injunction, command, or regulation addressed to certain persons who are called upon to conform to it. It is in this sense we speak of the Law of Moses, the Law of the Land, c. Whateley. Dr. Arnold and the Law. He seems to have looked upon the profession of an advocate as of necessity immoral. In the History of Rome he speaks of the study of law, which is as wholesome to the human mind as the practice of it is injurious, and in one of his published letters to Sir J. Coleridge, he speaks of his abhorrence of advocacy, and asks whether there is no way by which a man can hope to reach the position of a judge without exposing himself to the injurious influences of the bar. It is, perhaps, however, amongst the lighter class of writers that lawyers of all sorts are most hardly dealt with, and more particularly barristers. There is a piquancy in the contrast which is alleged to exist between the solemnity of the function which they claim to discharge the administration of justice and the disregard which their conduct is said to display for everything but the interest of their clients, which is irresistibly tempting to those who are bound to make a point of some sort or other, whatever may be the subject on which they write. There is also considerable satisfaction in taking vengeance upon men who, in the exercise of their profession, often pain and humiliate others. To represent lawyers in a newspaper article, or in a novel, in an odious or ludicrous light, is as often as pleasant to the author as it is to a junior boy to get the chance of throwing a
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330486110
• ISBN 13: 9781330486115
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 452
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