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  2. LAW AND LAWYERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 words
  3. ABORICULTURAL, &c.,

    The extraordinarily rapid growth of trees in this province, must have attracted general attention from the diligent observers of Nature; and, if we mistake not, will occasion a course of systematic. ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. SINGULAR FORCE OF VEGETATION.

    There is a singular instance of the fores ot vegetable growth, in penetrating "through a brick wall," now to be witnessed In the garden of Mr John Cwen, solicitor, Stratford, near die Corn. ...

    Article : 96 words
  5. STATE'S EVIDENCE.

    A good story is told of George White, a notorious thief, in Worcester county. Mass. He was once arraigned for horse stealing, when it was supposed that he was connected with an extensive gang, which was ...

    Article : 162 words
  6. SCOTTISH TESTAMENTARY PHRASTS.

    I. Thomas Gray, of Mary Town, Newport. Fife, in North Britain, a lieutenant in her Majesty's Navy, some time dockmaster in Dundee, dispone to my spouse, Christen Jack, or Gray, and her ...

    Article : 116 words
  7. RIGHT OF CHALLENCE.

    An Irish bookselier, previously to the trial of a cause in which he was defendant, was informed by his counsel, that, if the was any of the jury to whom he had any personal objection, he might ...

    Article : 74 words
  8. VEGETABLE THERAPEUTICS.

    Among the late French novelties, we find it stated that a Dr. Robert probably owing to a want of patients in the animal kingdom, has taken up the medical treatment of vegetables Many dis- ' ...

    Article : 77 words
  9. A LEGAL WITTICISM.

    In the course of Sir Thomas Wilde's argument at the bar ot the House of Lords, in Wood's sppeat case, the learned counsel had occasion to refer to a case is the books, in which a rat is stated to ...

    Article : 108 words
  10. JUDICIAL BLUNDER.

    At the Moumcuth Assizes, which terminated on Saturday. Lord Denman's opinion that trial by jury I may sometimes become "a mockery, a delusion, and : a snare" was rather anussingly illustrated. It would ...

    Article : 278 words
  11. WHAT CAN WHEAT BE GROWN FOR?

    in lime days of small meetings. and smaller arguments, against the repeal of the com lav, one of the most prominent fallacies pot forth is that of the fanner's peril from foreign wheat driving him ...

    Article : 308 words
  12. IS CHALK MANURE?

    This question—one of great importance to the agricultural body—was brought to an issue before the Court of Quarter Sessions at Dorchester, on Wednesday, when was heard an appeal against the ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. CORONERS AND THEIR FATS.

    A "considerable sensation" has been created among the Coronets of Devon, by an attack on their sources of income. Incases wher inquests have been held and verdicts of "Natural Death" or ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. PERSONATING A JUROR.

    In the midst of a recent trial at the Surrey Sessions, in which a prisoner was indicted for a felony. a juror stood up in the box, and addressing the chairman, said there was a person in the box acting as a juror. ...

    Article : 442 words
  15. THE STATUE OF LIMITATION.

    Mr Justice Patteson stated is the Nisi Prius Court at York, in summing up the case of Wainwrigh v. Taylor, that this statue does not extinguish a debt, and that the moral liability is as ...

    Article : 150 words
  16. JURYMEN FINED.

    At the conclusion of one of the trials in the Nisi Prius Court, Liverpool, the jury retired without leave, and their services being immediately required for other causes, Mr Justice Coleridge ordered all ...

    Article : 50 words
  17. A YARN ON HEMP.

    Invaluable phut, pride of intelligent agriculture, that tendeat thine own fibre, and strength to him that rightly cultivates thee. and constitutest the greatest dement of mechanical power What does ...

    Article : 496 words
  18. A CLEVER JURY.

    At the late Bodmin Assizes, a man was indicted I for wounding another, but it was proved that he was insane. The jury returned a verdict that he was "guilty of being insane." Under the direction of ...

    Article : 59 words
  19. BARLEY.

    Messrs R. and E. Tooth have issued a circular containing the following directions for the management of barley intended for malting:— "If the barley is intended to be mown, the weather most be at. ...

    Article : 435 words
  20. LAWYERS' TRICKS.

    Mr Martin the barrister, when addressing the jury on a case in the Nisi Prius Court, in replying to some Bevers remarks made by one of his learned brethren of the long ro be, on the apparent ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. A BASHFUL, JUROR.

    I At the recent quarter sessions in Beverly, the trial of a prisoner for stealing an are had reached its final stage, they jury having been charged by the chairman. They laid their beads together, and got ...

    Article : 329 words
  22. THE LAW OF EJECTMENT AS BETWEEN MAN AND WIFE.

    At the Queen's Bench Sitting in Banco, Lord Denman delivered judgment in the case, "Doe on die demise of Daly v. Daly," which was an action of ejectment, brought by a man against his oven ...

    Article : 250 words
  23. TRIAL BY JURY.

    In the Court of Queen's Bench, lately, Mr Halcomb applied for a new trial in an action of ejectment tried at the last Assize for Nottingham, when a verdict was returned for the defendants: upon the ...

    Article : 118 words
  24. EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE.

    An extraordinary will case has been tried at the assizes at Derby, and lasted several days. It was a case Thornhill V. Thornhill. The disputed will left a large estate, called the Ollerenshaw Estate, to ...

    Article : 460 words
  25. MISCELLANEOUS.

    A former, on working the lands of a rich commandery at Malta, was found Bitting on a sack of seed. It was a beautiful day, the sun shining brilliantly, and not a clound to be seen. A friend went ...

    Article : 363 words
  26. THE LAWYER AND HIS CLIENT.

    An old lawyer of the city of New York tells a good joke about one of his clients. A fellow had been arraigned before the police for stealing a set of silver spoons. The stolen articles were found upon the ...

    Article : 323 words
  27. AN INCIDENT IN AN AMERICAN COURT OF LAW.

    The Attorney-General of Massachusetts, now eighty years of age, and said to be more competent to the discharge of the arduous duties of his honourable situation than almost any practitioner. ...

    Article : 295 words
  28. THE VINE.

    The following remarks on the nature of the toil auitable the growth of the vine are from the pen of one of the most experienced and successful vine ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  29. JOHN AND THE JUSTICE.

    Many yean ago a certain justice was called to gaol to liberate a worthless debtor, by receiving his oath that he was not worth five dollers. said theas he entered, "can ...

    Article : 97 words
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