Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heretofore unknown in that august body toward a bill to remove the responsibility of as man for his wife's actions. One "noble lord", says the news-dispatch, bewailed the fact that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable for the mischievous behavior of his wife...
TIME Knoxville, Tenn. New York, N. Y. May 19, 1925. Gentlemen: Just a little personal note which I have resolved each week since June, 1923-, to write but, because, perhaps having the "Legal mind," I have procrastinated. Not an original subscriber to TIME, in fact no subscriber at all, but was "original purchaser" in this city, having been sold the first issue ever received on the newsstands by D. Beiler and out of gratitude to him for his urgent suggestion, I have continued to purchase my TIME through him and he will tell you that 1 have never missed...
Before a Congressional Commission investigating land grants to the Northern Pacific R. R., one D. F. McGowan, attorney for the Forestry Service, declared that a comma in legal writing may mean as much money as a cipher on the left side of a decimal point...
Some time ago, in a learned article on legal punctuation, Urban A. Lavery wrote in the American Bar Association Journal...
...Chicago Bar Association has long taken the lead in studying the relation of the press to the courts and the legal profession...