Forensic Fables

Title

en_US Forensic Fables

en_US 0

Description

en_US Second impression

By O (Theo Mathew)

Creator

en_US Mathew, O. Theo See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Mathew, Theo (O)

Date

2020-02-27T20:40:59Z

2020-01

en_US 1926

Date Available

2020-02-27T20:40:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1926

Abstract

en_US Here is a dust-jacketed copy of the second impression of the first book in this series. It is one of four found together now in 2020. Before its twenty-four fables, this volume offers a table of cases cited and a one-line table of statutes. Each story has an enjoyable newspaper-like caricature. I read the first four and enjoyed them, though much of the vocabulary, both legal and colloquial, was beyond me. In one case, a stand-in lawyer does not hear what he is supposed to do and so is silent, but his silence somehow wins him the case. A similar second case has a nervous, inexperienced lawyer faint, and the defendant is so shocked that he begins to confess to any number of crimes. The next defendant is an attractive, well dressed woman. The inexperienced lawyer's speech on her behalf is long and incoherent, but she is acquitted immediately. The final fable has a young lawyer chatting on a train with a "nice old buffer." They get along wonderfully, and the young lawyer offers some critical opinions of a certain judge. When the train arrives, there is a gathering there to meet . . . this judge! There are twenty-three pages given to an index starting on 77. The covers are heavy boards with titles pasted on. The dust-jacket is in good condition with a good illustration of the first fable, described above: "The Common Law Leader and the Promising Equity Junior."

Identifier

en_US 12196 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/126156

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Butterworth

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN6231.L4O23 1926 See all items with this value

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en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value