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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A New Miscellany-at-Law: Yet Another Diversion for Lawyers and Others by Edited by Robert Megarry Edited by Bryan A. Garner
Should horses in Charleston be required to wear diapers? Does the hotchpot rule apply when dividing a testators 17 residuary elephants? Which verse in the Old Testament was the life-saving neck verse? May sexual intercourse be conducted on a without prejudice basis? These questions and many others like them are raised but not always fully answered in A New Miscellany-at-Law. This follows the same style as its two predecessors but consists of entirely new material some of it suggested by the readers of the first two volumes. Like them it collects accounts of strange and remarkable cases striking court-room exchanges wise and witty utterances from the Bench and much else that illumines the law. For the common law world its reach is global with many riches from the USA; and Scotland is not forgotten. Although the book is primarily for lawyers a glossary and explanatory footnotes enable non-lawyers to share in the humour. Some may read the book from cover to cover; but for most there will be the pleasures of browsing often surprisingly prolonged. A New Miscellany-at-Law also includes many other jewels.There is the touching Conveyancers Ode to His Beloved the courts refusal to consider whether bees should be classified as invitees licensees or trespassers a deplorable account of a wife being part-exchanged for a Newfoundland dog the future Lord Dennings reference to a wife who was actually committing adultery while denying it in the witness box and fustum funnidos tantaraboo in Chancery.show more