the legal sardonic

had a date with fate - and perhaps with legal immortality.

CRIES.

“But who would keep a pack of hounds; or what gentleman, at the sound of the horn and at peep of day would mount his steed, and for hours together, "sub jove frigido" or a vertical sun, pursue the windings of this wily quadruped, if, just as night came on, and his stratagems and strength were nearly exhausted, a saucy intruder, who had not shared in the honors or labours of the chase, were permitted to come in at the death, and bear away in triumph the object of pursuit?”

"upon a certain wild and uninhabited, unpossessed and waste land, called the beach, find and start one of those noxious beasts called a fox"

“The question is, whether the owner of the barge has a right to maintain an action for that injury. In my opinion he has that right, the more temporary outstanding interest in the hirer of the barge amounting to nothing. That trover will not lie for the conversion of a chattel out on loan, is clear”