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Contents
Miscellany-at-Law
I - Homo Sapiens
The chill and distant heights
Philologists of the highest order
Stuff and silk
There's nowt so queer as folk
Stranger than fiction
Cakes and ale
A resounding slap
Baron et feme
The golden met-wand
II - Pith and Substance
The Chancellor's foot
An ungodly jumble
Sinning in their graves
A patriotic duty
The uplifted knife
Mutcomb's hackney
The flushed Moorcock
III - Cursus Curiae
Judico me cremari
Blowing hotter
The Clapham omnibus
A horse high and unruly
Dumb but eloquent
These scambling reports
The trail of the calf
Not wrong but pretty odd
Of peculiar language
Notes on Revised Impression
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index
A Second Miscellany-at-Law
I - The Path of the Law
Somewhat of the Cunctative
Advocate Non Larron
An Exuberance of Sympathy
A Unanimous Dissent
All Ravished with Gladness
Olendorf's New Method of Teaching French
The Wisest Thing under Heaven
II - Semanticity
Soldiers of Cadmus
The Mother of Repose
The Devil
Poisson d'Avril
III - Vile Bodies
The Constable Has Blundered
A Crazy Quilt
De Ventre Inspiciendo
Nul Home en Engleterre
IV - Corpus Juris
Chaos and Old Night
Save Honour
Nebuchadnezzar's Tree
Gnawn All to Pieces
King Solomon in Georgia
Tiger Days Excepted
A Bursen-Bellied Hound
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index
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Author Details
Robert Megarry : The author practised at the Chancery Bar for 10 years as a junior and 11 as a Q.C., with interludes as a visiting professor in the U.S.A. and Canada. For many years he was the Assistant Editor and Rook Review Editor of The Law Quarterly Review and consultant to the B.B.C. for the "Law in Action" series of talks. In 1967 he was appointed a judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court and in 1976 he became the Vice-Chancellor. He retired in 1985. He is a Privy Counsellor, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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