Ourselves and the Law
IR EDWARD PARRY once said "A beginner finds law books lacking in humour. It is necessary to the profession that this should be so. It would never. do to let the public know how funny the law really is." Judging from the talk I heard om a recent Thursday, Llewellyn Etherington seems to have joined Sir Edward’s conspiracy. Unlike most of his predecessors in the field of legal lore, Mr. Etherington (in his second talk at any rate) refuses the lure of these fascinating bypaths gay with the brief blooms of Weatherby v. Woolsack or Angelina v. Defendant, and prefers rather to confine himself to the broad highway of his subject, which is Ourselves and the Law. This particular talk was mainly concerned with the law of contracts, and must have been speci-
’ ally helpful to those listeners with housebuilding problems on their minds, Mr. Etherington sounded a warning note in
citing the case of the farmer who contracted with a farrier for the shoeing of his horse, the price to be one farthing for the first nail, a halfpenny for the second, and so on. The farmer, faced with a demand for more than £1,000 (as I remember it, that was the figure)
sought legal redress, but the court ruled the contract valid. Listeners should feel grateful to Mr. Etherington for his reminder that you need your wits as well as your lawyers about you when agreeing to a contract.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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245Ourselves and the Law New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 380, 4 October 1946, Page 10
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