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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1931.
LANGUAGE OF OUR JUDGES.
AN INTERESTING LECTURE ON "JUDICIAL ENGLISH.”
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
OCEAN, STEAM SHIP. CO., LTD.
And
a chiefly because of Its history. As such, the technicalities are a highly intorcating commontory on History. For centuries there was no "Judicial English" at all. The
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM oral proceedings in our Courts
"NAVIGATION CO., LTD. were conducted in French, the spoken language of the entire up-Consignees per Company's Vessel, por class at that period and the permanent records were kept
In
"MENELAUS" Fram UNITED KINGDOM via SINGAPORE. BEFORE ENGLISH ASSN.Latin, the language of every per
son whe wrote. We have, consoare herchy notified that their cargo quently, a namber of technical wilt be discharged Into Holt's Wharf' Clan- A lecture that was both Interest-forms, some in Norman French Kowloon, where it will lie at ing and entertaining was deliver and others in Latin. Though usual-signee's risk and subject to terms and ed by Mr. H. C. Macnamara at the ly well known to lawyers some of conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. and After Bih Cathedral Hall yesterday after them are already dead, in practice, The Cargo will be ready for delivery noon, to members of the Hongkong and others are rapidly dying." branch of the English Association, entitled "Judicial English."
At the
Mr. Macnamara proceeded to quota the famous case of Nisbet Rayno, in which the word commencement of the "accident" was made to cover a meeting, the chairman (Mr. G. P. claim under the Workmen's Com de Martin) said that as it was the pensation set in which a clerk had first meeting of the year it became been murdered in a railway train, his privilege and pleasure, on and he told how the English and behalf of members of the Associn-Irish Courts hold one way and tim, to offer their hearty congra how the Scottish Court held dif tulations to Sir William Hornell ferently. Eventually the matter on the honour which His Majesty was settled by the House of Lords, the King had conferred upon kimproving how important judgments This was received with applause. were often Involved the Mr. Macnamara began by point-subtleties of ordinary English. ing out that the subject for discus
All About Ber ston, "Judicial English," was the
The lecturer then passed to an language in which Judges were wont to deliver their judgments, example of a very great judge, At first sight that might appear to dealing with a question of common be a most inappropriate subject senae and common honesty in com- for what was primarily a literarymon English. It is about beer. society.
"In England there is a popular aution that the legal profession, | in its three branches, is orcuplest in a manner something na follows: Solleitors are supposed to draw
documents in ครู
language scarcely intelligible to themselves and quite unbatelligible to
Any- body else. Barristers are engaged in defending murderera "who they know to be guilty," while as for Judges they merely sit upon the Bench and utter remarks of mild l'aturity. That is a popular con- ception of how law uses or mis- Targ Eugliali
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IL IB judgment by Lord Macnaghten. As he was a judge with great gifts of spl and lucid expression, I might proceed t once to the quotation. But as it Is also about an "injunction" and involves an "appellant" and
plaintiff,"
I must preface the quotation by an explanation of these words as they apply to this ease. An injunction is a judg ment or order to do or refrain from doing a particular thing.
Lord
is
a town
of
from Godown on January,
Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival but carried on from part to part to the final port of call to which the option extends.
All broken, chafed, and damaged rools are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined un any Tursdays and Fridays between hours of 10.45 am. and noon within the free storage period.
the
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's
down, and all Goods remaining un- delivered after the 12th January, will be subket to rent.
All Claims against the Stenmor must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 20th January. 1931, or they will not be recognizet.
No Fire Insuranes will be effected,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents. Hongkong, 6th January, 1981.
OCEAN STEAM SHUP CO., LTD. And
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Consigneos por Company's Vossel,
"PELEUS"
From UNITED KINGDOM and CONTINENTAL PORTS vla
SINGAPORE.
are hereby notified that their cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Con- sigavos' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown un January.
and niter 5th
Optional cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival but carried un from port to port to the final port of rail to which the option extends.
the
A Clabon against the Steamer
on or before the 26th January, 1931, ist be presented to the undersigned or they will not be recognised.
In the case I am about to quote The injunction had been obtained by the plaintiff" against the "ppellant" by which the appel- laut was ordered not to inhel or But this is not borne out by the sell his beer s Stone Ales facts. As ngunst the tradition because to do so was Heels to lead that lawgera love to complicate the public to think that his beer shuple things by using a difficult was brewed by the plaintiff whose jarion I want to show you how beers had acquired a great local their work is largely to make dif-reputation under the name
All broken, chafed, and damaged ficult things simple by careful us Store Ales."
goods are to be left in the Godowns, of common words: and how our
where they will be examined on any Lacld Judgment.
Tuesdays and Fridays between great judges have laboured to preserva A lobe worthy of the
Macnaghten said:-My hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within
the free storage period, great matters they deal with and lords: The appellant complains No claims will be admitted after worthy of the critical audiences to fof an injunction awarded against | the Goods have left the steamer's whom they address themselves, him so far, and so far only, as it Gedown, and all Goods remaining un- It is abre my object to point out prohibits him absolutely from delivered after the 12th January, will that to persona of literary tastes selling or causing to be sold any be subject to rent. the judgments of our tribunalsale or beer, not of the plaintifa' afford a rich Held for research.
manufacture under the Same short time ago I was read-Stone Ales" or "Stone Ale"
in ing a book called "Common Sense Stone, it seems,
Staffordshire containing Home in Law." It is a book forming
the part of Home University 6,000 inhabitants. It has a supply Library Series and is published at or water admirably suited for The brewing, so the Appellant saya, very moderate price. author Professor Vinogradoff was and his opinion. is fortified by
scientific nalysis.
Anyhow one of the must learned of lawyers. sei aloreover he was not as his name Stone is famous for its ales, which might surest, mere foreign are known in that part of England Jurist, hut a professor of law in as "Stone Ales" and one special the University of Oxford. In this quality is known as "Stone Ale."
come from the book I came across a passage These ales all which so exactly coincided with plaintiffs brewery, which is said what I intended to say at this to have been established in Stone lecture that I propose to take it as for a hundred years, and to have my text. The Professor says: flourished there all that time with Although the details of legal rules out a rival, and even without any are complicated and technical, the attempt at rivalry worth mention- operations of the mind in the ing. Whatever reputation there-risk in the Godowns of the Hongkong domain of law are based on Com-fore is attached to "Stone Ales" or mon Sense, and may be followed to "Stone Ale" above other ale without difficulty by persons of known in the district is due to the ordinary intelligence and educa-plaintiff and their predecessors
in business.
the The value of
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man
•
reputation,
and
No Fire fnsurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD' & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong. 5th January, 1931."_
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
The Steamship.
"ANDRE LEBON" Arrived Hongkong on Tuesday, the 6th January, 1931. From MARSEILLES, &c. Consignees of Cargo by the above mated stemer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of pium, Treasure and Valuables are bring landed and placed at their Kowloon wharf and godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery can be obtained as the gods are landed.
Goods not cleared within 7 days
including date of arrival. will be
subject to rent.
All clajma must be sent to the the Thursday, undersigned before the 15th January, 1931, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages must be left in
in the light of a paradox. Though whatever it is, no one knows bet- a paradox It is not a mere jest. ter than the appellant. He is the It is the expression by an intense-proprietor of several hotels ly learned
of the first publie houses in Liverpool, and the Godowns for examination by the principle of the science he pro- in his different establishments he consignees, and the Company's Sur- fenses.
has dealt largely in "Stone Ales" veyor Messrs:-Goddard and Douglas procured from the plaintiffs. Int 10.00 am. on Monday, the 12th 1887 he determined to set up as a January, 1931. The avernge Inyman usually brower himself. He had to find thinks that there is a mysterious a site for his business, Where thing in existence called "legal was he to go? After much con- language." People sometimes sideration. influenced, as he says,
of came to me with an agreement, let by the peculiar virtue
LIA
No "Legal Language."
the
For further information apply to: NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. any, and bak me to "put it into water, he resolved to go to Storie
Telephone 30291. (private exchangus to all Depts.
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Fri. 9th Jan at
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TO SINGAPORE PENANG
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Wed. 28th Jan at 3 p.m.
TO OSAKA vis AMDT.
Kumsang
SHANGHAI, MOJI E KOBE
Yhousan
TO OSAKA vie AMOY, MOJI
# KOBL
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Tuos, 20th Jan at 7 a.m. Tues. 27th Jan at 7 a.m. Tues, 3rd Fob at 7 a.m.
noon. noon.
TO SANDAKAN
TO TIENTSIN via SWATOW
#FOOCHOW
Yusong Mausang
Chipshing
Chuongshing
another.
legal language" and they are One thing leads to rather surprised when I tell thera Taving gone to Stone he could
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No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fire insurance will be effected by su in any case whatever.
R. ONL
• Agent. Hongkong, 6th January, 1931.
that their agreement being in good think of no better name for hisor Burton. The injunction makes plain
English is in legni language brewery than "Stone Brewery," it the private preserve of the
them legal he could find no more fitting de plaintiff. anguage" is a mysterious thing signation for his ales than "Stone na different from plain English Alca." Then
:
came thege
pro-
Then, they argued, the appel- lant is not to be deprived of his
ns, let us влу German. In cendings. It is not the first time rights because he has behaved point of fact there is no such thing. in these cases that water has got badly. All the Court ought to do The King's English is legal cur-
An honest man into trouble, and is to koop him strictly within his reney in all his Courts.
perfect right, as then falled him at the pinch. rights. He has Mr. Macnamara proceeded to Neither Mr. Justice Chitty nor the avedybody has, to not up n brewery deal with the subject of technicall-learned Lords Justices could be in Stone. Ale brewed. In Stone is tics, saying that they occur in Inw, persuaded that the appoliant was Stone Ale for all the Court can say and in every other subject as well attracted to Stone by the peculiar or do. The appellant is entitled to "What I object to in the man who virtue and chemical properties of call hia ale what it really is, and to If he comes along and says "why not the water. They thought he went sull it under its true name, abolish technicalities altogether there simply with the object of takes care that his customers are llas such a person ever seriously stealing the plaintifa irade and its not induced to believe that it is of considered what he means by his the hope of reaping where he had the plaintifs manufacture. After a.m.proposal?
They were antisfied discussing other aspects of the case not sown.
(Continued on Page 11.) There Were technicalities that he meant to make a fraudu 3 p.m. in cricket and if one wan-lent use of the term "Stone Ales."
ted to follow cricket in an and that he could not possibly use
.one hnd intelligent way
With the to that term honestly. learn at least some of its technical fudgment which has been passed. terms. The same thing applied to upon his character and conduct quarrel. the technicalities of law and the the appellant does not logical reason for having them Protesting that it was somewhat was the same. The difference he harah, his scunsel uso It to point
their tween cricket and law was simply their argument. Granted, they that the appellant la a that in cricket the technical terms, fraudulent man, as fraudulent as
say. though highly technical to the non- cricketor were few, and compara- you please still his demerits can- tively unimportant. In law techni. not enlarge the plaintiffs' rights. cal terms ware bound to be both The injunction being absolute and unqualided in its terms will decuro numerous and very important.
to the plaintiffs the monopoly of "The reason we have a large the brewing in Stone. With such number of technical; terms in low water, Stone might be as Wrexham
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