And answered the telephone all that while. A stubborn client just paid his fee But it don't mean a blessed thing to me; Some Supplementary Proceedings have been completed, Our client is already as good as defeated. We have a new case for a smuggler of dope, If he gave me a shot I could give him some hope. He smuggled in heroin and loads of morphine, Keeps yelling he's innocent and won't Our chronic vagrant is again in jail, But he's young yet, so he'll have lots more. pay For a train that got into a client's way. I pounded out a beautiful ten-page brief But we'll never make legal history. When these master minds commence to Pity the steno and the lowly law clerk. I'm a'goin' out West where the real Men are! Away from Citations - Law Journals — and Law Oh, I'm through with being a legal cat's- "SS" Here and There Every lawyer, I suppose, has his own theory as to what the "ss." in the venue represents. The law dictionaries suggest that it represents the Latin "scilicet." | have always thought that made no sense, since it doesn't explain why there are two s's nor why, in the lawyer's tradition, the "ss." terminates the venue. I used to hear some people say that it stood for "suum sigillum", but that made no sense because, among other reasons, the seal never had a place in the venue or elsewhere than at the end of the document. Folk etymology is responsible for such inventions as "said state." In looking through Fitzherbert's Natura Brevium the other day, it struck me that the word should be "salutes", meaning "greetings." The old commonlaw writs contained the form "salutem", "greeting", as part of the venue, and in Chitty's Forms the English of the writ contained the word "greeting" with the venue. The two s's indicate the plural; and certainly the word "greetings" is common enough in official documents. Can it be that the standard practice grew up in this country in the early days to keep the greetings in the venue even though we had dropped the King as the conventional author of court process? The early records of some of our courts ought to yield interesting material. Samuel Klaus, Washington, D. C. Hotel and Jail Landlord is Also the Jailor in Newfane, Vermont The little village of Newfane, Vt., county seat of Windham county, has the distinction of possessing what is perhaps the only combined hotel and jail in this part of the world. If you stop at Newfane and put up for the night you are pretty likely to sleep under the same roof that shelters prisoners serving sentences or awaiting a hearing. Occupants of one end of the building pay for their own meals and lodging. For those in the other end the county pays the bill. It depends on which end of the building they put up in. One end has curtained windows and the rooms are real cozv. That end's all hotel. But in the other erd the windows have bars-it's the county jail. Charles Whitney is innkeeper with ore hand, jailer with the other. His son Fran cis acts as clerk of the jail and hotel c'er Guest or prisoner, you enter by the or are booked — same door, register at the same desk. But prisoners are taken behind the desk. Paying guests rema in front of the counter. Prisoners tend and milk the cows that provide cream for guests' coffee, wash the hotel dishes, mow the hotel lawn and mira the hotel furnace. A prisoner used to bring the guests their mail from the village postoffice unt Jailer Whitney concluded that was thrusting temptation on a man. The dual establishment resulted from a fight over the county seat. Newfane, cen trally located, was chosen first. But Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, located at coposing ends of the county, developed fast er. When agitation was started to have the jail, and the courthouse across the street moved, Newfane contrived to have the hotel built so that court personnel co stop there during sessions. The motor age changed things. Cour personnel avoids the rural hostelry, driving 13 miles to Brattleboro daily. But Wat ney still runs the jail; rents the hotel from the county at a nominal fee, and lodge tourists in summer, deer hunters in autumn and skiers in winter. The Schuylerville (N.Y.) Standard. This is the only edition which contains in unabridged form the encyclopedic articles introduced by Francis Rawle in his Revisions of 1897 and 1914. Two-Volume Edition Bound in Dark Green Fabrikoid WEST PUBLISHING CO. St. Paul, Minn. "Off the Record" Any Answers? "Honi soit qui mal y pense” Just as a sample of what we Oklahoma wyers have to contend with, I enclose an xact copy of a letter received from a Cherokee Indian this morning by my office artner: "Enclosing letter of the 24th ultimo,: I esiring an information. If the will obained by the party of the first part; to home owner of the party as in case of leath. does the will set aside or does it ransfarable? If first party dies; to whom he will made to. Second party of the secand part. In other word; Is one will still n good standing if 3 dies on same will. Or is it the will has to be change and eprobate. "Give us an imediate answer and defiite. by me first duly sworn, according to law, deposes and says that one Wellington Claytor, did unlawfully and with intent thereon, did inveigle one Maude L. Smith by enticing she, the said Maude L. Smith, to go with him to the Probate Judge to get a license to marry, and she, the said Maude L. Smith, a minor, and under the age of twenty-one years, to-wit, the age of seventeen years old, which said license were issued, and marriage in conclusion thereof, contrary to the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio. Glenn Syrus Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of January, 1938. Fred Millisor Has any offense been committed? State of Ohio, Gallia County, ss: Glenn Syrus, personally appeared before me, Fred Millisor, Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Gallia, Ohio, who |
