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  2. LEGAL FACTS AND SCRAPS.

    At the Clonmel assizes, the grand jury brought in bills presenting three prostitutes as vagrants, when the following conversation between the court and jury took place :— ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. EGYPT.

    A letter from Cairo gives a remarkable example of the tolerant spirit of Ibrahim Pacha. He has given proof of his great tolerance on two occasions lately. The great Rabbi of the Jews had died: and it was ...

    Article : 685 words
  4. WHAT A BARRISTER MAY DO AND WHAT HE MAY NOT DO.

    There seems to be at present a very considerable difference of opinion among the gentlemen of the bar as to what may or may not be done by a barrister. We had some idea of publishing a small ...

    Article : 317 words
  5. TOUTING FOB BARRISTERS' FEES.

    At Clerkenwell Police Court the following dialogue occurred:—John Murphy was placed at the bar on a charge of bigamy. A person dressed, in seedy black came forward to assist in the ...

    Article : 431 words
  6. LEGAL" .PROVOCATION.

    The jury that tried the cook of the Guildhall Coffee-house for murder found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy as the deceased had been "very, aggravating." The extenuating ...

    Article : 292 words
  7. FEEDING A JURY.

    In the Secondaries' Court, Guildhall, a laughable occurrence took place, excepting to one person, who had a narrow escape of being committed to Newgate for contempt of Court. For convenience ...

    Article : 345 words
  8. NORTHERN AFRICA.

    Abd-el-Kader, the terror of the French in Algeria, has made another unexpected descent upon the invading army, snatching victory with the suddenness of his incursion, evading pursuit, and ...

    Article : 182 words
  9. AN INNOCENT DEPENDANT.

    By the 8 and 9 V., c. 49. 81, a defendant who is acquitted of a felony or misdemeanour is not liable to pay any fee to the clerk of assize, sessions, or magistrate's clerks. The magistrate who orders a ...

    Article : 64 words
  10. TRIAL BY JURY.

    A few days since, a gentleman who had been looking over the report of the cases tried at the assizes at Bodmin, met with a neighbour, who had been summoned to attend the assizes as a juror, when the ...

    Article : 313 words
  11. SIR VICARY GIBBS AND THE ATTORNEYS.

    Unpopular in his own branch of the professions the Attorney-General could not boast of being a great favourite with solicitors, especially the worst part of them. For though the temper of the man ...

    Article : 302 words
  12. WESTERN AFRICA.

    Accounts from the coast of Africa state that two of the officers employed in the surveying expedition of Captain Denham, viz., Messrs Pennington and Winstanley, have been murdered by the ...

    Article : 90 words
  13. JUDGES' PERQUISITES.

    Lord Ellenborough died possessed of ample wealth, which has been computed to amount to £240,000. So munificent a fortune may be easily accounted for. There were three offices of very considerable value ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. BRITISH AMERICA.

    Up to the 30th July, 1846, 9964 immigrants arrived at Toronto, being an increase of 2512 over the number that had arrived up to the same period in 1845. ...

    Article : 31 words
  15. THE MORALITY OF "THE BAR."

    My notions, l am aware, are absurd, unreasonable, preposterous: but, that I might venerate at least one individual of this profession, I have been all my life looking for the advent of a conscientious ...

    Article : 260 words
  16. UNITED STATES.

    There are 118. towns and counties in the united States called Washington: there are 91 Jacksons, 69 Jeffersons, 58 Monroes, 50 Madisons, 32 Harrisons, 19 Adamses, 16 Van Burens, 21 Clays, and 3 ...

    Article : 285 words
  17. A JURY IN A QUANDARY.

    An amusing scene occurred in the Sheriff's court, Hull, on Wednesday evening. The second cause for adjudication having occupied till nearly nine o'clock in hearing, the coroner clearly summed up ...

    Article : 184 words
  18. LUDICROUS SCENES IN A COURT OF JUSTICE.

    At the Rutland assizes, at which Mr Justice Patteson (who is very deaf) presided as Judge, a case of maliciously cutting and wounding was being tried, when John Sloughton, a " navie," was examined for ...

    Article : 223 words
  19. ARREST ON MESNE PROCESS.

    A Bill (since printed) was laid on the table of the House of Commons at the close of the late session, and ordered to be printed for consideration during the recess, to restore arrest on mesne process in civil ...

    Article : 489 words
  20. ON THE UNANIMOUS VERDICT REQUIRED OF JURIES.

    There is a peculiarity in the judicial constitution of this country which does not carry with it that evidence of its propriety which recommends almost every other part of the 9ytem. It is the rule which ...

    Article : 358 words
  21. FORENSIC JESES.

    One day that Dunning (Recorder of Bristol, whose exterior graces were by no means commensurate with his personal vanity) had been cross-examining a young woman at considerable length ...

    Article : 203 words
  22. A TWISTER AND HIS PIECER.

    In the course of a cotton-spinning case tried in the Nisi Prius Court, Liverpool, a twister was called into the box, and Mr Justice Cresswell asked him whether twisters were not in the habit of employing ...

    Article : 156 words
  23. SOUTH AMERICA.

    The accounts from the seat of war on the Rio de la Plata continue to be disastrous, as regards the British and French. There have been three actions within four months, each of them attended with loss ...

    Article : 210 words
  24. TRIAL BY JURY.

    The question of the expediency of continuing trial by jury in civil cases has been raised in Jamaica: Mr Justice Stevenson, at the last Surrey-Assizes, suggested to the grand jury the policy of abolishing ...

    Article : 53 words
  25. ENORMITIES OF THE LAW.

    Among the laws of Edward 1., is one that gives a most forcible instance of the barbarity of his age. A criminal found guilty a third time of stealing from the lead mines of Derbyshire, was sentenced ...

    Article : 262 words
  26. FEES TO RAILWAY BARRISTERS.

    "A LooKer-on," in writing to the Times, says that a leading counsel on a railway committee receives from 1000 to 2000 guineas for a "briefless 'get up' in a few hours' notice," and that ...

    Article : 68 words
  27. MEXICO.

    It seems likely that an accommodation may be effected between the United States and Mexico. Meanwhile, however, the war proceeds, and the American commodore (Connor) instructed "promptly ...

    Article : 111 words
  28. ABOLITION OF DEODANDS.

    To-day the following act to abolish deodands will take effect:—"Whereas the law respecting the forfeiture of chattels which have moved to or caused the death of man. and respecting deodands. is ...

    Article : 270 words
  29. SCANT LAWYERS' PARE.

    When Lord Lyndhurst, then Chief Baron, first visited Dolgelly, he expressed his surprise to the high sheriff that there should not be a single prisoner for trial. That worthy official seemed afraid ...

    Article : 148 words
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