More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from More Anecdotes of Bench and Bar Baron Parke was what is known as a "black-letter lawyer" - that is, a man impressed with a profound reverence for ancient precedents and a perverse preference for technicality over justice. An amusing story relates that once he was summoned to advise the Lords, and in the midst of the argument was suddenly seized with a fainting fit. Cold water, hartshorn, and other restoratives were applied, but without effect. At length an idea, occurred to one of his brethren, who well knew his peculiar temperament, and he immediately acted on it. He rushed into the library, seized a large musty volume of the old statutes, came back, and applied it to the nostrils of the patient. The effect was marvellous. He at once opened his eyes, gave them a slight rub, and in a few seconds he was as well as ever! In his latter years Baron Parke acquired a habit of thinking aloud which led on one occasion to an amusing incident. While trying an old woman upon a charge of stealing faggots, he unconsciously ejaculated: "Why, one faggot is as like another faggot as an egg is like another egg." The counsel defending the case heard the observation, and repeated it, as his own, to the jury. "Stop! said Parke. "Stop! It is an intervention of Providence. That was the very thought which passed through my mind. Gentlemen" (addressing the jury), "acquit the prisoner!" Lord Eldon once had a narrow escape from a watery grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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