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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-bord puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plass, and altho.)
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15 16 17 18
10
D
12
14
IS
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17
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119
20
24
28 29
35
39
43
44
146 147
че
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HORIZONTAL
1-Hithar 5-Taitle 9-Mister (Sp.) 10-Scareer
12-Pronoun
13-Prudence 14-On
16-Camp again
18-A riddle
20-Subject of a novel
by Bulwer-Lytton
21-A salior
+42
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 41-Isolate (poet.) 43-Point of compass
(abbr.) 44-Gathered anything
by degrees
45-Into
40-Trail (8. Afc. D.)
32
133
134
VERTICAL (Cont.) 15-Flogs (colloq.) 17-A iver white
metallic element 19-Tolla idle tales 22-A rural settlement
(8p. Am.) 25-The main source of
48-Any sphere of action. light and heat. 50-To out (Prav. Eng.) 26-Before 51-City in Italy
28-Unlock
VERTICAL
23-Piece of meta) used 1-Pronoun
as money
24-Turnips (Beot.)
26-Relloves
27-Lower in pitch
28-A vegetable
31-Danish
38-To come down prófusaly
36-The liquid Juice of
planta
38-Sumfla denoting
vision
39-Entangle in a net
2-Form a camp
3-Wander
4 To cause to burst
forth
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B-A town in N. Franca 7-External remedy for
aprains
& Exist 9-A cubic unit of metrie mere 11-Chinese plant 12-Porala
[29-The ninth day.
before the Ides (Roman cal.) 30-Pacific State of
U. 8.
32-Annulled
33-Plural of clllum |34-Contraction of taken
(Boot.)
36-A fragment of
pottery 37-Pertaining to
punishment 40-The black haw 42-Roman emperar 47-Postscript' (abbr) 49-Nickol (abbr)
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VISITORS STAYING AT THE
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The following visitors are in re- sidence at the Hong Kong Hotel:
Mre. A. G. Anderson, Mr. H.
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Messrs. J. La Botief, Lean Bergbein.
Mr. J. Caasa
Mrs. A. W. Dow, Messrs. R. F Daffern, J. H. Davy.
Messrs. A. Jenkins, J. E. Joseph. Miss H Lillie, Messrs. Y. H. LI, W. K. Lo.
Mantra, J. C. MacFadyen, H. H. Molland, Marchgay, Mr. and Mrs. Mapa
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THE
SCINTILLAE JURIS"
TALES OF WITTY LAWYERS BY LORD DARLING
KING'S WILL IN VERSE
Lord Darling, whoze scintillating
CHINA MAIL,
OPEN DOWNS
THE ENGLISH LAW OF PROPERTY ACT
(By Alfred Fellows) Recently the Duke of Northum-
IRISH FREE STATE
THE GOVERNMENT ÅND MOTOR RACING
GOOD TOURIST SEASON
it is a puzzle to many why motor
of the Phoenix
wit, which tormerly played like/berland dedicated parts of Merrow racing should be so slugled out for lightning in the Law Courts, now Down, including Newlands Corner, favour by the authorities. Having most pleases us when crystallized under s. 193 of the Law of Property been allowed without charge, and at as light verse, has given us, in his Act, 1925, and Lord Onslow has some inconvenience to the public, "Scintillae Jurls," one of the wit-now followed suit with the northers the exclusive use tiest of all books making fun of half of the Down. As one result. Park, the Government is now going the law: books of a peculiar class, a fact no doubt made plain by to ask the Dail to relieve the of which a small library might be notlee-boards, members of
the guarantors formed. It may surprise many who public are liable to fine if they liability. of some £4,000 of drive cars over the grass of the guarantora will then be agreeable delight in his lordship's verse to
It is hoped that the learn that bis classic little volume Down, or park them on it, and are to renew their guarantee for next was originally published anony penalty to light fires for their year's races, when a profit is ex-
forbidden under similar mously so long ago as 1877.
"Scintillae Juris" makea witty picnica. comment on the glorious uncer-
also
Thus at first gight it would
pected.
The Dall is hardly likely not on account of the amount, but to pass the money without protest,
law as something more than " fand others who have applied the certainly did bring a lot of people tainty of the law, and shows up the Pear that these two landowners, because of the principle. Tho races haas"-as a sort of corpus vile, to Act to their holdings, have usetto Dublin, but so, it is hoped, will. be tugged hither and thither like the body of Valerius, when
Titus dragged him by the foot And Aulua by the head. To find amusement in the serious business of the law, to make it a target for the arrows of their wit, as a recreation for leisure hours, has ever been a favourite pastime of lawyers.
And it is curious to the public have no right whatever find how a good legal story passes te wander over, the open downs,
it to restrict public rights, The prosent purpose is to show that, so
the Civic Week, the finance of far from this being the case, land-which is also guaranteed by private owners who apply the Act to their interests. If possibly on account of property may be regarded as public the tram strike there is a defcit on benefactors.
this function, the guarantors will have an equally good claim for re- Hief. It affords a dangerous pre- cedent which the Dall would do
Tourists and Hotels
The real truth is, of courag, that well to recognise.
All accounts go to show that this excellent tourist
an
sorts have been packed, and even
from book to book, and becomes an moorland, commons. mountains, has been illustration in the hands of all sorts and foreshore which lawyers conseason. The hotels in popular re- of philosophers. In his "Lecture prise under the general term on Heads"--a book forgotten by this "manorial waste," save to "pass and the lesser known and, to many, generation George Alexander repass" (without loitering) along more enjoyable spots have been Stevens made play with the story auch public highways na may
be well patronised. The report of the
of a trial, "Bullum v. Boatum," but thrown across them. Tenants of a lady inspector of the Tourist Asse- it was not his invention, and is to manor may enjoy various rights of ciation is alsu encouraging. At the be found also in Martin Luther's common over such lands, the chief result of surprise visits she records Table-Talk." where it is introduc- being to pasture their animale, but a marked improvement over last ed, not to raise a laugh against the these confer no rights on others. year, and this is borne out by the law, but to illustrate the great re. The publie have access to vast areas testimony of visitors themselves. former's sound judgment.
of manarial waste, such as the At the same time it would be un- South Downs, the Cumberland hills, fortunate if proprietors were to be Luther's Decision
and most of the foreshore of Eng unduly satisfied by such praise. It was in 1546 when this case land, for the simple reason that the was stated to Luther: A millor various owners do not employ their much lost ground to be recovered. There was, and there is still, had an ass which entered a fisher's servants to turn off trespassers. We still lack the necessary fasti boat. Inasmuch as the fisher had This indulgence may arise from dious, sense of cleanliness, and not tied his boat fast, it swam away benevolence, or from the fact that whatever the outside of the platter with the ass; insomuch that the the land is not sufficiently valuable may be, it would be a shock to many miller lost his ass, and the fisher to warrant the payment of game to penetrate into the kitchens and his boat. On each suing the other keepers or wardens for the pur back regions of certain country for his loss, the query arose, "Took pose; indulgence it is, however, hotels, the ass the boat, or the boat the and. if a landowner chooses, he may satisfaction ass away?" Luther decided that begin to exclude the public when-invited by a proprietor of a small it was what he called a "chance ever he likes, provided no right of hotel along the Seine. somewhere medlie," a case which should waive way has been acquired. And the Between Rouen and Paris, to visit the rigour of the law, 90 that Courts will not allow the acquisithe kitchen with tiled floor and equity might prevail, by which, tion of a right of way merely for walls, scrubbed tables and glisten. said he, "All things are to be sight-seeing, or otherwise than for governed."
the purpose of proceeding from one proof refuse tin, the lid of which ing coppers, and even & fly- public place to another.
•
What
it gave
to
feeling of be
Of the same sort was a problem referred to by Alexander Pope in
was raised by a pedal. It gave a his comments on the works of Mar-1
relish to the food, and even excused tinus Scriblerus:-A testator be The law above laid down is en-mark a new era if our hotel pro- imperfections of service. It would queathed to his friend all his black tirely reversed if land is dedicatedprietors were able to advertise that and white horses, and died leaving by a lord of the manor or other own-visitors are cordially invited to visit six black, six white, and six black-er, under the Act; when he does so the kitchens and back premises. It and-white steeds. The point re the public acquire rights of access would be the acid test of efficiency mains as much a legal puzzle as it for air and exercise subject to re-and a practical ideal well worth was to Scriblerus.
gulations to be approved by the striving for.
One of the earliest collections of Minister of Agriculture. Such a such humorous legal curiosities is scheme may involve various regula- the "Facetiae" of Poggio Braccion- tions, breach of which is punished lini (1380-1459). The 19th century under the section by a maximum saw a prodigious outcrop of humor-fine of forty shillings, as stated ous semi-legal books. "The Comic above. It is provided, however, by Blackstone." by n Beckett (1846) the Act that this right of access was distinguished by Cruikshank shall not include any right to draw illustrations. "Legal Facetine" (J. or drive upon the land a carriage, Willock) was published in 1887 eurt, caravan, "Wit and Wisdom of the Bench and vehicle, or to camp or light any fire truck. or other Bar" (Moncrieff) in 1882, and "The thereon, and breach of this provi- Law's Lumber Room" (F. Watt) insion is also punishable by fine. 1895. For a comprehensive study When once the land is so dedicat-
of all books which have made theed, the rights of the public cannot law their jest we turn to Dr. David be extinguished by the landowner. Murray's learned work with the This can only be done by statute, or happy title, "Lawyers' Merriments," on the approval of the County issued by the publishers to Glasgow Council and the Minister. Presum- University (MacLehose),
ably that approval would not be given unless the landowner made Many examples are given of some concession to the public equi- famous amusement of lawyers-revalent to that discontinued. ducing laws to rhyme.
Laws in Rhyme
An early example is a deed of gift. in verse, credited to none other than King Athelstane, when he appointed one Paulane of Odiham and Roddam as his heir
I Konig Athelstane Gifs heir to Paulans Odiham and Roddam
Als gude and als fair
Als over ye mine ware
And fair to witnes Maud
wife.
This will in verse was proved Canterbury in 1787:-
The fifth day of May,
Being airy and gay, And to hyp not inclin'd But of vigorous mind, And my body in health, I'll dispose of my wealth, And all I'm to leave
On this side the grave,
To some one or other,
In effect, then, landowners who dedicate their lands under the sec- tion may curtail the public's licence, which they can always take away, but they enlarge the public's rights, which they cannot after- wards restrict (unless they reserve an express power of revocation), and they deprive themselves of the my use of the land for bullding, or even
And, I think, to my brother.
for growing crops. In all cases of at public gains liberty when it loses such dedication, therefore, the
Ilcence.
A curious bit of literary history
is connected with a ponderous legal
work by Sir Edward Coke, of which
Only land subject to rights of common may be dedicated in this way under the section, a limitation which might perhaps be repealed with advantage. In particular, the whole foreshore might, be dedicat- ed, giving bathing rights subject to regulations for safety and decency, but no right to shoot gulls, or other birds or animals.
an Ingenious edition in verse ap makes others the subject of satire.
peared 'In 1742. The post. Cowper For example:-__
was unaware of its existence when
"Afidavit a statement in writ-
he recorded this attempt to put one ing sworn to on oath. The form of
of Coke's definitions (as tooth is this You do swear that tenant in fes simple") into rhyme the contents of this your affidavit
Tenant in fee
Simple, is he,.
is true; so help you God-one shilling meaning that you may
And need neither, quake rior swear what you like for a shilling.
quiver,
Who hath his lands
Free from all demands
To him and his heirs for
"Bau," an unlucky wight who be-
comes surety for the debt and costs of another, or for his being forth- overcoming on a certain day which
Satire in Explanation never arrives
A remarkable example of a “Taxes," money to be paid by the- serious law book which is stuffed unfortunate people of England to Mesare. V. Rosell, W. Rondy, with legal facetiae is a "Eaconic the Government, before they can
Mr. J. Pangdier,
A. G. Butherford.
Law Dictionary** (1886); the eat, drink, amell, smoke, hear, see, Messrs. Paul Schwab, P. N. 8o. author, like Dr. Johnson, while ex-sign, a deed, or receive a legacy
plaining many terms correctly in short, do anything.
R. G. Whelldon:
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