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Show Humors of the Law. Law and equity aro two things which God has Joined together and man has put asunder. When a prisoner in Justice Maulo's court was asked whether ho had anything any-thing to say why sentence should not bo pronounced upon him, ho replied: "I wish God may strlko mo dead if I stole tho ducks." Maule waited for about a minute, and then snld: "Prisoner, "Pris-oner, as Providence has not Interfered Inter-fered I must. Threo months' hard labor." A mayor on taking his scat on tho bench for tho first tlmo informed tho bnr that during his year of offlco ho would sparo no effort to bo noithor partial nor impartial. Address ot Sir Albert Rolllt in London. |