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or Saturdays or in Lent, the old and sick ex company of Maurice Berkeley's servants entered cepted. The penalty in Queen Elizabeth's time the park of Lady Anne Berkeley at' Tate, and was no less than three pounds or three months' killed the deer and fired the hayricks, she re imprisonment. The exemption of the sick from paired to court and made complaint. The king at these penalties was abolished by James I. In once issued a special commission under the great fact, until the last two centuries, the legislatures of seal, authorizing her and others to inquire into and all ages took for granted that they could not determine the riots, and made her one of the choose but lay down rules of this minute personal quorum. She returned to Gloucester, opened and harassing description. The Statute of Diet and the commission, sat on the bench, impanelled a Apparel, above referred to, and later statutes fixed jury, and heard the charge, and on a verdict of the proper dress for all classes, according to their guilty pronounced sentence accordingly. — Curi estate, and the price they were to pay; handi osities of Law ami Lawyers. craftsmen were not to wear clothes valued above forty shillings, and their families not to wear silk, fur, or silk velvet; and so with gentlemen and esquires, merchants, knights, and clergy, accord FACETIAE. ing to gradations. Ploughmen were to wear a An accomplished practitioner of law in Jackson blanket and a linen girdle. No female belonging to the family of a servant in husbandry was to ville, 111., having occasion to file in the circuit wear a girdle garnished with silver. Every person court a legal paper in behalf of himself and part beneath a lord was to wear a jacket reaching to ner, affixed to the firm signature the Latin term his knees, and none but a lord was to wear pikes per se — thus: "Doe & Stokes, per se." His in his shoes exceeding two inches. Nobody but partner suggested that the term meant " by him a member of the royal family was to wear cloth of self" and that, as it was in the singular number, gold or purple silk, and none under a knight to it was not appropriate to accompany a firm signa wear velvet, damask, or satin, or foreign wool, or ture. Not at all at a loss for a correct term, he fur of sable. It is true, notwithstanding all these changed the signature; and the records there restrictions, that a license of the king enabled the show a paper signed " Doe & Stokes, per 2 e's "! licensee to wear anything. For one whose in come was under twenty pounds to wear silk in his L a case in Connecticut, the judge ruled that nightcap was to incur three months' imprison certain evidence was inadmissible. The attorney ment, or a fine of ten pounds a day. All above took strong exceptions to the ruling, and insisted the age of six, except ladies and gentlemen, were that the offered evidence was admissible. bound to wear on the Sabbath day a cap of " I know, your Honor," said he, warmly, " that knitted wool. it is proper evidence

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Of all such delusive notions as to the proper at the bar for forty years, and now I want to know business of Government, Montaigne aptly disposes if I am a fool ! " in a sentence : " To enact that none but princes "That," quietly replied the court, " is a question shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, of fact, and not of law; and so I will not pass upon merely set every man more agog to eat and wear it, but will let the jury decide." — Splinters. them." Some sumptuary laws went to extravagant lengths, but each probably had some evil of the She had sued for breach of promise, and the time in view. Tiberius issued an edict against verdict of the jury was against her. " Want to people kissing one another when they met, and pole the jury?" she repeated. "Yes, I do; jes against tavern-keepers selling pastry. Lycurgus gimme the pole for two minutes; " and she threw even prohibited finely decorated ceilings and back her bonnet and bared her arms before the doors. legal phrase could be explained to her by her counsel. — Grip. During the reign of Henry VIII., when family A writ of attachment — a love letter. quarreia . mong the Berkeleys raged, and a riotous