Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — Legal Jokes. [ARTICLE]

Legal Jokes.

Lord Ellenborough, noted as a hanging Jndge, having said he would take beef for dinrer, was told he’d “ be sure to like it, because it was well hung.” Perhaps the grimmest joke on that subject was that of Mr. Justice Page, also a well-known hanging Jndge, who, boing asked after his health as he was coming out of court, anewered • " Pretty

well; you see I keep just hanging on— story in the book is that of the only lawyer who ever went to heaven. He was refused admission by St. Peter, but having thrown his hat inside was allowed to go in to get it, and having once got in, as 3t Peter could not leave the gate to turn him out, .refused to come out again. One of the last is that of a French advocate who left all his money to a lunatic asylum, and in his will said that as he had made it all from litigants it was &uly a restitution; while, as a pendant to the epitaph on a lawyer which said that he had shown that “ legal knowledge was the plainest, easiest and shortest way to the end of strife,” we mav set the 6aying of Langlois, when asked why he took on him ta plead bad causes, that he had lost so many good ones; or the answer of Lord Lyudhurst to the defendant in person who “feared that he would have a fool for his client,” that the saying “was lramed by the lawyers.” —Pall Malt Gazette.