A JUDICIOUS COUNSEL.
" My learned brother," says the court kindly but significantly to a young lawyer who is about to sum up his first case, " my learned brother will observe that it is near dinner time, and that brevity is the soul of summing up." " May it please your honor, I will not long detain you. lam right ; my learned friend opposite is wrong ;'you are a good judge." Judgment in his client's favour, with costs.
"■Like father, like son," as the young lady remarked when she decided to marry the young man for the old man's
money. 1 !
The Sandhurst Bench sent a young woman to gaol for prevarication in giving evidence in order to screen her mother-in-law.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Issue 1137, 2 October 1880, Page 2
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119A JUDICIOUS COUNSEL. Poverty Bay Herald, Issue 1137, 2 October 1880, Page 2
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