Mind-delighting Subtleties
*VE often wondered whether the law is as interesting to lawyers as it is to many non-lawyers, or whether the tragedies and comedies of the Great Trials books and Hatred, Ridicule and Contempt are merely the rare high points of interest in an otherwise drab existence compounded of torts, barratry and malfeasance (whatever they may be!). But Professor A. G. Davis in his first talk in the series What is the Law? (1YC), without venturing into the zany world of Misleading Cases, was able to show the mind-delighting subtleties behind the simple notice "Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted,"’ which, to judge by the
cases he cited, must have kept many lawyers not only intellectually stimulated but well-heeled as well. With a pleasant dash of dry wit, Professor Davis proved that the notice was "a wooden lie," since you cannot be prosecuted for trespassing, but "only’’ made the subject of a civil action-in certain circumstances; and gave so many qualifications to what I had naively regarded as a legal absolute that I shall hitherto regard all similar injunctions with. dark
suspicion,
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 10
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183Mind-delighting Subtleties New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 10
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