Part 46 (1/2)

'And which chain is frequently strong enough to bind and imprison both plaintiff and defendant'

'Certainly: or the laould be as dead in its spirit as it is in its letter'

'I fear I shall never get all the phrases and forms of law by rote'

'Why, no If you did, heaven help you! it would breed a fine confusion in your brain You would beco'

'Mr Stradling,' said Hilary, 'is one ofa law-printer, has in the way of trade read so on, as to iine that he is a better lawyer than any of us; so that he has half-ruined hiation He is to dine with us, and will soon be here'

'I will provoke hiibberish; you ree of instruction you suppose eneous topsy-turvy mass of law phrases'

'But why irritate your friend?'

'You ue that, instead of giving him pain to shew the various onist at law, it affords hiratification'

'Our friend Hilary here is better qualified for the task of instruction; but he feels some of your qualms; and is now and then inclined to doubt that there is vice in the glorious systeulates thee of right and wrong than they have of law, their actions would indeed be wretchedly regulated!'

This was a sagacious reotten It suggested the iovern are ridiculous; and thatto their sense of right and wrong

Mr Stradling soon after came; and Trottman very artfully led him into a dispute on a supposed case, which Trottravated hi roundly affir a suit at law

The volubility of this gentleed to bestow, at that time, on the subject could alone have enabled on he uttered, in opposition to Trottman: which in substance was as follows

'Giveof the lad I could provoke you to meet me in Westminster-hall If I had you but in the Courts, daet out!'

'I tell you once more I would not leave you a coat to your back'

'You! Lord help you! I would _traverse_ your indict my _writ of error, nonsuit_ you Sir, I would _ca sa fi fa_ you I would _bar_ you I would _latitat_ you, _replevin_ you, _refalo_ you I would have my _non est inventus_, my _alias_, and _pluries_, and _pluries_, and _pluries, ad infinitum_ I would have you in _trover_; in _detinue_; I would send your loving friend Richard Roe to you I would _eject_ you I would make you _confess lease entry and ouster_ I would file my _bill of Middlesex_; or my _latitat_ with an _ac etiaue to you still: I would have inal for CP You talk! I would sue out my _capias_, _alias_, and _pluries_, at once; and outlaw you before you should hear one word of the proceeding'

Blessato law!

Trott, your brain is bewildered You go backward and forward, from one supposition to another, and from process to process, till you really don't knohat you say If I were your opponent, in any Court in the kingdo for the rest of your life'

'Bring your action! That's all! Bring your action, and observe how finely I will _nonpros_ you: or reduce you to a _nolle prosequi_ You think yourself knowing? Pshaw I have nonsuited fiftyfellows, in my tiht I

'I have laid many a pert put by the heels You pretend to carry an action through the Courts with me! Why, sir, I have helped to ruin three men of a thousand a year; and a as much for a Baronet of five times the property'

I listened in astonish this?' said Hilary

'Pleasure!' answered Stradling; staring 'Why, do you think, Mr

Hilary, I should have taken a pleasure in ruiningto the laws of my country? And, if men will oppose me, and pretend to understand those laws better than I do, let thenorance and their presu'