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not really ceased to be lawyers — they
anywhere from $50 to $500, if counsel
have become lawyers in a new and
had been briefed.
higher sense, through their interest in
of the jury actions now on the lists will be tried before the Court rises on the 31st of July, for the long vamtion, if
the laws found not in books but in life. There may be sermons not only in stones, but in the dry bones of the law for such as these, and even poor Yorick's skull may tell its tale.
EXPEDITIOUS PROCEDURE IN ENGLAND OME idea of the admirable way in
It is stated that all
the parties are ready, as nearly all the Common Jury actions entered in May were disposed of by the end of the second week in July and the Courts at that time were trying actions set down in the previous month. On the chancery side parties can get to trial in ten days after the actions have been set down for hearing.
which litigious work is disposed of in the English courts may be gathered
from the fact that at the middle of July last there were only one hundred and eighty-five jury actions awaiting trial.
Of these more than half had been set down for trial since June 1st, and less than twenty-five were of older date on the calendar than May 1st. In fact the celerity with which business is dis
patched is so great that solicitors shrink from setting their cases down for trial until they are absolutely ready to go
into the trial. According to the English practice the solicitor for the plaintiff or for the defendant may set a case
down for trial within ten days from the time when the issue is joined by the
pleadings. If the case is thus entered it must be proceeded with, unless for a substantially good reason the Court
consents to have it delayed.
No such
excuse as the mutual inconvenience or
engagements of counsel would suffice to procure a continuance to the next term. Nothing short of inability to procure the attendance of an abso lutely essential witness would afford a reasonable foundation for such an appli cation, and the applicant would expect to be obliged, in case his application
AN OLD CONTRIBUTOR OBERT VASHON ROGERS, K.C.. died recently at his home in his native city of Kingston, Ont. Mr.
Rogers was a frequent contributor to legal periodicals. He early distinguished himself by giving a humorous turn to the study of the law. He wrote “The Law of the Road, or the Wrongs and
Rights of a Traveller by Boat, by Stage, by Rail" (1875), “The Law of Medical Men" (1884), books alike humorous and sound in their exposition of the law. Mr. Rogers was the author of the following articles which have appeared in the Green Bag: “Legal Position of Women in Ancient Greece,H v. 11, p. 209; “Scotch Marriages," v. 11, p. 426; “The Legal Position of Women in China," v. 13, p. 16; “Gardening," v. 13, p. 293; v.“Women dans," 13, p. 466; Among “The Mohamme~ Devil in Law," v. 13, p. 581; “Pigs," v. 14, p. 374;
“Women Under Early Christian Law," v. 14, p. 539; “Trials of the Dead,” v. 15, p. 239; “Woman and the Law in Baby lonia and Assyria," v. 15, p. 485; “Hair," v. 16, p. 326; “Christopher Robinson,
was granted, to pay the costs of the
K.C.," v. 18, p. 1; “Marriage in Old
adjournment, which might amount to
Rome,” v. 18, p. 402.
