FROM THE OLD DOMINION.
EIIDGE AND HUMRUG.
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The learned nonsense of the legal profession is
happily shown up in the subjoined article which
we copy from one of our exchange papers. The
case is simply stated in the first line-Tom strikes
Dick with a cane; now if action be brought
where is thepeceaity of all this useless multipci-
" Of t-ords which, in nine out of ten, have
0 naaner of meaing? Is it done to cheat the
unsuspecting-to gull the credulous The day
will come when the march of wholesome, sound
healthy reform, will reach the huge mass of abom-
inations now hidden from public detestation under
the specious phrase of 'Common Law But
here is the extract:


LAw-Tom strikes Dick with cane about
as big your little finger. Dicks lawyer
would tell the story somewhat in this way 'And
that whereas the said Thomas, at said town, ol
the year and day last aforesaid, in, on, and upon
the body OF the said Richard, against the peace
and dignity of the good people OF this State, then
and there being. did. of his malice aforethought
with force and arms make most violent and
outrageous assault, and inflicted great many
and divers deadly blows kicks, cuffs, stabs
knocks, thruss, contusions, bruises. gashes
wounds hurts, fractures, cuts, ualnages, and IN
iuries, In and the person of him, the said
Richard at over about, around, and under his
the said Richards head, neck, face, arms, breast
sides, back, stomach, hips, thig hs, knees, legs
shins, and heels, with divers sticks, staves poles
canes, cudgels bludgeons, clubs logs of wood
brickbats, stones, guns, dirks. swords, daggers
pistols, cutasses blunderbusses, and boarding
spikes: then and there seized grabbed, held
grasped, griped and cIinched, in the hands, paws,
fists, claws and clutches oil him the said Thomas
70 the great and everlasting enormous. monstrons
barbarous, base, inhuman. disastrous. horrible,
dreadful, heinous, shocking. shameful ignonin-
ious, destructive, deleterious savage, atrocious,
terrible. and vile injury, detriment, harm, dam
age. mischief, disparagement, terror, torture,
agony. loss. disgrace, shame. and dishonor OF
him, the said Richard, my client"