Distorted torts : leaves from a lawyer's memory

Type
Book
Authors
Category
Australia and New Zealand  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1972 
Publisher
Caxton Press, Australia 
Pages
189 pages 
Subject
Humor 
Abstract
"Readers of the New Zealand Law Journal, both lawyers and laymen have been regularly amused by the intriguing cases which from time to time come to the attention of those droll characters Mr Pennyfeather, his partner Mr Brunt, and Mr Drubble Q.C. it may now surprise those readers that although Pennyfeather and his associates were case in an English office dealing with what seemed to be English law and cases, the stories were in fact written in New Zealand by a New Zealander and what is more, many of them had basis of fact in this country..." - Cover 
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Content:

Foreword -- A man for all seasons -- Through a glass darkly -- A slight case of adultery -- A bakers dozen -- The bald fact -- Penalty paid -- A Solomon judgement -- Alicia in aspic -- Tonic for the gander -- A breach in the promise -- Parrot wise -- A will to will -- Blood will tell -- The colonel's lady -- Sour grapes of victory -- The colour of mortgage -- Obiter dicta -- The wagers of sin -- Caveat emptor -- His or hers -- Litigation in the eye of the beholder -- Rape of the lock -- Square egg in a round hole -- More things in Heaven and Hell -- Pain is a personal thing -- The cigar is not for burning -- Dire diagnosis -- De mortuis -- The sign of the fisherman -- Short journey to a man's heart -- The flesh is willing -- Custody of a parent -- The high cost of dying -- A sort of miracle -- A sort of libel -- A sort of witchcraft -- A question of honesty -- Exeunt. 
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