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...chef for bad cooking. He left the Temple gates to start practicing-according tp legend with only "a horse, a rapier, ten pounds, a ring set with three rose diamonds and the motto (O Prepare.' " His first client was a parson who had been served with a writ of slander. The case was thrown out when Coke spotted that the word messoinges, i.e., lies, had been translated as "messages." When the litigious plaintiff brought suit afresh, young Coke was tempted to ask for a demurrer, i.e., to plead that even if the plaintiff's arguments were correct, there...
...would al agre that the horible mes of silent 'E's' in our language is disgrasful. Therfor, in 1961, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of eduka-tion. Sins by this tim it would be four years sins anywun had used the leter 'C', we would then sugest substituting...
...Writ by stodgy, sexless sages...
...Navy radio to turn on a television set for Knight, then arranged with a TV station to broadcast a tape-recorded plea to the governor. Knight got the message. At 9:02 he called Davis by radiotelephone, granted an hour's stay. Six minutes later, Davis presented a writ of habeas corpus to the State Supreme Court. The answer came down at 10:42: petition denied. Attorney Davis tried again, this time with a frantic message to the Federal District Court. Judge Louis E. Goodman refused a further postponement. It was 10:50-ten minutes...
...even the fact that Davis did have an opportunity to make his plea at an earlier date was the clear instance of how a set of confused legal procedures can spell tragedy. On the one hand, said Davis, federal law allows an attorney 90 days to file for a writ of certiorari (a re-examination of the record) upon the State Supreme Court's refusal of a rehearing. But in Abbott's case, the State Court set the date for execution two weeks before the 90-day limit. Thus, with the writ still on file, there...