Should horses in Charleston be required to wear diapers? Does the hotchpot rule apply when dividing a testator's 17 residuary elephants? Which verse in the Old Testament was the life-saving 'neck' verse? May sexual intercourse be conducted on a without prejudice basis?These questions and many others like them are raised but not always fully answered in A New Miscellany-at-Law. This follows the same style as its two predecessors but consists of entirely new material, some of it suggested by the readers of the first two volumes. Like them, it collects accounts of strange and remarkable cases, striking court-room exchanges, wise and witty utterances from the Bench, and much else that illumines the law. For the common law world its reach is global, with many riches from the USA; and Scotland is not forgotten. Although the book is primarily for lawyers, a glossary and explanatory footnotes enable non-lawyers to share in the humour. Some may read the book from cover to cover; but for most there will be the pleasures of browsing, often surprisingly prolonged.A New Miscellany-at-Law also includes many other jewels. There is the touching Conveyancer's Ode to His Beloved, the court's refusal to consider whether bees should be classified as invitees, licensees or trespassers, a deplorable account of a wife being part-exchanged for a Newfoundland dog, the future Lord Denning's reference to a wife who was actually committing adultery while denying it in the witness box, and 'fustum funnidos tantaraboo' in Chancery.

An entirely new anthology from Sir Robert Megarry - accounts of strange and remarkable cases, striking court-room exchanges, wise and witty utterances from the bench.

1 Lex Loquens2 Judex Non Juridicus3 Beggar or Fool4 Into Battel5 Ars Bablativa6 Short of Water7 Figs and Pippins8 Living in our Ancestors9 All Deliberate Speed10 Le Needfulness De Eux11 Statutes at Larger12 A Plain and Simple Question13 Maxima14 Andorandororand15 Dark with Excessive Brightness16 An Uncharted Sea of Doubt and Difficulty17 The Paperwork18 Every Prospect Pleases19 Winter'd One Whole Summer20 Fustum Funnidos Tantaraboo21 A Certain Amount of Sobriety22 Narrowed to a Filament23 The Evil of Evils24 Powafuchswowitchahavagganeabba (Chicago)