Forensic Fables
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Mathew, O. Theo
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1926
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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."
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Butterworth
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12196 (Access ID)