Anomalies of the English law

“Authors have long got the credit of being the most accomplished persons going--thoroughly conversant not only with the features of every walk of life, but, also, with their int...

The administration of justice in this country is to some extent idealised by the world at large. Certainly, there is honesty of purpose in the word and act of every English judg...

The office of the coroner dates back for many centuries, but it has never grown to much importance, despite the blazing interest which sometimes attaches to it during the prelim...

issued forth from its mother after the expiration of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, whether alive or dead, shall be the dead body of a person within the meaning of the Cor...

The will or testament of a man is one of the most important instruments of the law, affecting as it sometimes does the disposition of immense wealth, great estates, or other pos...

Little excuse is needed to touch on the law of libel and slander, owing to the constant flow of diverting cases brought in connection with this branch of legal activity. The Kin...

Imprisonment for debt, laughable enough, perhaps, in an eighteenth-century comedy, is something of an anomaly in the existing state of justice. Some ten thousand persons annuall...

A very anomalous side of the law is to be found in connection with the use of surnames: their variation, their complete change, etc. John Smith may freely call himself John Mont...

There seems to be some need for the revision of the law applied to literary productions. The subject is a peculiarly important one to writers, printers and publishers, and, to a...

Murder, which is the summit of evil-doing according to human canons is at the same time the most natural act in the world. The so-called “unwritten law” which weighs up the evid...

The legitimation of natural children by the subsequent marriage of their parents does not apply in England. It is for many reasons a defect in the law that this should be so, in...

The Criminal Appeal Act is brought into operation nowadays by almost every notorious murder case. Crippen availed himself of its provisions, and, again, more recently, Morrison,...

A member of the Bar who ventures to touch such sensitive plants as professional usage and etiquette must almost of necessity do so with a sense of diffidence and modesty, that i...

The Morality Bill, so designated because of its peculiar provisions, contains some instructive reading. The most questionable provision in the Bill is formed by a portion of sub...