“BY THE DOZEN.”
RUSH FOR DIVORCE,
CHIEF JUSTICE’S SATIRE
LONDON, March 26. Sitting without a jury, and called upon to asses the damages to be awarded a petitioner in a divorce case at Leeds, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Howart, said —“I award half-a-crown. That’s the money value of this wife to her husband.” Lord Hewart heard eleven out of 77 undefended petitions, and then satirically remarked: “Cannot an ingenious member of the bar devise a plan to hear petitions in 'batches of a dozen? It would save much time.” He further suggested that .the Chancellor of tho Exchequer might raise revenue by selling decree misi stamps at the post-office.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 111, 7 April 1927, Page 8
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