Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...signing render it invalid. Under the doctrine of uberrima fides (utmost good faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate hearing last autumn that she did not know what she was doing when she signed away her dower rights, thinking the $18,000-per-annum allowance was just to be pin money...
...last 50 years. Dean Emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School, John Henry Wigmore, 75, lightly recalls his early assignment to develop the Recent Cases and Notes departments. His prize Note, he says, was this quotation of Henry Lord Brougham in an 1846 British Parliamentary report on legal education...
...humbug [i.e., legal education], but it's something very like it. . . . Latin questions were proposed after the lecture to the students. . . . But all we had to do was, if the question commenced with 'Nonne,' we said 'Etiam': and if with 'An,' we replied 'Non.' " Winks Northwestern's Wigmore: "But-oh, hum! Now that legal education in the U. S. A. has been delatinized, of course, the current generation of completely cultivated young jurists cannot appreciate [this...
Manhattan Lawyer McKelvey, now 74, reviews the first 50 years of law reviews. [To the charge that law reviews are "stupid, dry, uninteresting . . . unleavened with humor," he answers: "Who would be likely to resort to a legal periodical for his humor? Certainly not a lawyer or judge. . . . The law review . . . [is] the vehicle of thought between legal scholars and the practitioners and judges...