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...only do the fortunate inhabitants of the cow-breeding strawberry-raising island of Guernsey, ancient fief of the Dukes of Normandy, enjoy the finest climate and the lowest taxes in the British Isles, but they have their own special coins and measures (eight doubles: one penny; one vergee: 0.4 acres) and their own archaic and particular means of legal redress. The method of obtain.ng a civil injunction in Guernsey is curious, simple and direct, consists in raising a Clameur de Haro in the presence of witnesses...
Last week one Alfred Arthur Machon, Guernsey householder, stepped outside his villa, was vexed to see that a plasterer working on a villa next door had put up a scaffolding that overhung his rose garden, and while plastering the wall of the house, was dropping plaster on his rose bushes...
...Guernsey law, the Clameur de Haro constitutes a legal injunction. The alleged "tort" or wrong must cease until the case has been tried in the island's Royal Court. In the Royal Court last week appeared Householder Alfred Arthur Machon and witnesses who deposed that the plasterer had not only paid no attention to the Clameur de Haro, raised at 12:15 p. m., but had continued his slovenly plastering until...
Arthur William Bell, Bailiff of Guernsey, cogitated on the bench. "There seems to be no doubt," said Bailiff Bell, "that there has been a direct contravention of the Clameur de Haro. There was risk of a serious breach of the peace by virtue of the accused's behavior. I am obliged, therefore, to fine him the nominal sum of one shilling...
...summar: YALE 1933 HARVARD 1933 Waterman, l.e. r.e., Reisner Wilbur, l.t. r.t., Esterly, Saltonstall, Robinson Jackson, Bronkie, l.g r.g., Hageman Howland, c. c., Hallowell Hagerson, Williams, r.g. l.g., Harter Guernsey, Munson, r.f l.t., Bancroft Sargent, r.e. l.e., Barton, Lovett Sullivan, Harper, q.b. q.b., Wells Parker C. Williamson, l.h.b., r.h.b., Scott, Feins Coburn Church, Johnson, r.h.n. l.h.b.. Leonard, Borden Crowley, M. Williamson, f.b. f.b., Hardy...