Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — Legal Phraseology. [ARTICLE]

Legal Phraseology.

If a man would, according to law, give to another an orange, instead of saying, “I give you that orange,” which one would think would be what is called in legal phraseology “an absolute conveyance of all right and title therein, ” the phrase would run thus: “I give you all and singular my estate and interest, right, title and claim, and advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away as fully and effectually as I, said’ AB, am now entitled to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange, or give the same away with or without its rind, juice, pulp or pips, anything heretofore or hereafter, or in any other deedcj instrument or instruments of whatever nature or kind soever to the contrary in any wise not withstanding.”— Hall’s Journal of Health

The following advertisement appeared in a Vienna newspaper: “Arespectable married couple, of whom the husband is no dancer, desires te make the acquaintance of an equally respectable couple where the wife is no dancer, in order to visit balls in company. ” The “silk-tailed chatterer* is the name of a bird that has reappeared lately in Middle Germany after an absence of more than thirty years.