Some professional recollections, by a former member of the council of the Incorporated law society [C.R. Williams]. |
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Page 225 - ... which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give—who does not often give—the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!
Page 224 - This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard...
Page 224 - He then found out, that there were not defendants enough — remember, there were only seventeen as yet ! — but, that we must have another who had been left out ; and must begin all over again. The costs at that time — before the thing was begun ! — were three times the legacy. My brother would have given up the legacy, and joyful, to escape more costs. My whole estate, left to me in that will of my father's, has gone in costs. The suit, still undecided, has fallen into rack, and ruin, and...
Page 82 - June, 1850, in the following words : — " This is a further codicil to the last will of me, Richard Seymour, Marquis of Hertford, which bears date on or about the 21st day of June, 1838.
Page 223 - No one disputed the will; no one disputed anything but whether part of that three hundred pounds had been already paid or not. To settle that question, my brother filing a bill, I was obliged to go into this accursed Chancery ; I was forced there, because the law- forced me, and would let me go nowhere else. Seventeen people were made defendants to that simple suit ! It first came on, after two years. It was then stopped for another two years, while the Master (may his head rot off!) inquired whether...
Page 146 - a very Paradise." Mediaeval descriptions of the Fenland oscillate between praise of its beauty and fertility on the one hand and warning of its inhospitable character on the other. Deeds of gift or exchange within the Fenland area normally concluded with a statement of right : to enjoy the same in wood and in plain, in meadows and in pastures, in waters and in marshes, in preserves and in fisheries, in mills and milldams and in all other things. Such were the products and resources of the unreclaimed...
Page 223 - consider my case. As true as there is a Heaven above us, this is my case. I am one of two brothers. My father (a farmer) made a will, and left his farm and stock, and so forth, to my mother, for her life. After my mother's death, all was to come to me, except a legacy of trnee hundred pounds that I was then to pay my brother.
Page ix - In old age alone," says Alison, " we are masters of a treasure of which we cannot be deprived — ' the only treasure we can call our own.' The pleasures of memory, and the retrospect of the varied images which in an active life have floated before the mind, compensate, and more than compensate, for the alternate pleasures and cares of active life.
Page 223 - My father (a farmer) made a will, and left his farm and stock, and so forth, to my mother for her life. After my mother's death, all was to come to me except a legacy of three hundred pounds that I was then to pay my brother. My mother died. My brother, some time afterwards, claimed his legacy. I and some of my relations said that he had had a part of it already in board and lodging, and some other things. Now mind ! That was the question, and nothing else. No one disputed the will ; no one disputed...
Page 293 - ... the forth day a suitable site for a temporary encampment was found and there followed the difficult business of transporting marines, settlers and convicts, together with their baggage, and the heavy stores of the commissariat department. The scene now presented was one of intensive industry, with the boats plying backwards and forwards between the ships and the shore, soldiers and settlers busily erecting shelters from the weather and looking after their baggage, many hands sinking innumerable...