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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW,* by William S. Holdsworth, K.C., D.C.L., Professor in English Law at Oxford, is the first continuous history of English Law ever written. Said one Abraham Benedict, writing for The New York Times: "There are still lawyers in this country who think it no less important...
"The fact of their existence is a natural conclusion from observations of their planet. By what miracle could the forces of Nature, existing under identical conditions, be sterile there and productive here? Their world is astonishingly like ours.
"The Martians are happier than we are and much more intelligent. First, because their planet is several million years older than ours, and progress is the law; then, because they are less governed by matter, the gravity there being less. A man or woman of 150 pounds would weigh only...
Speaking of the trial-by-jury system, M. Minagawa said: "Our first impression of the system is that cases cannot be tried as quickly before a jury as when a judge is the only one before whom the facts are placed. Then, too, the emotional appeal of the case is...
"Thank you for your demonstration of sympathy, which I value the more for its being entirely unsolicited. Only two months ago, in this very place, I said: 'Let all parties, including ours, perish, provided Italy becomes strong and great.' We can say with clear consciences that we have...