A NEW MISCELLANY-AT-LAW: YET ANOTHER DIVERSION FOR LAWYERS AND OTHERS PDF

Bryan Garner (* 17. November 1958) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jurist, Grammatiker und Lexikograph. Er schreibt auch über Jurisprudenz (und gelegentlich über Golf). Er ist Autor von über 25 Büchern, von denen die bekanntesten Garner's Modern English Usage (4. Aufl. 2016) und Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 – gemeinsam mit Richter Antonin Scalia) sind, sowie vier ungekürzte Bücher Ausgaben des Black's Law Dictionary. Er ist Distinguished Research Professor of Law an der Southern Methodist University. Von Zeit zu Zeit unterrichtet er auch an der University of Texas School of Law, der Texas A&M School of Law und der Texas Tech School of Law. 2009 wurde er bei einer Verleihung der Burton Awards in der Library of Congress zum Legal-Writing and Reference-Book Author of the Decade ernannt. Er hat viele weitere Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter den Benjamin Franklin Book Award, den Scribes Book Award, den Bernie Siegan Award und einen Lifetime Achievement Award des Center for Plain Language. Seine Arbeit hat eine zentrale Rolle in unserem Verständnis von moderner Urteilsbildung, Advocacy, Grammatik, englischem Sprachgebrauch, juristischer Lexikographie und dem Common-Law-Präzedenzsystem gespielt. Seine Bücher werden häufig von amerikanischen Gerichten aller Ebenen zitiert, einschließlich des United States Supreme Court.

A NEW MISCELLANY-AT-LAW: YET ANOTHER DIVERSION FOR LAWYERS AND OTHERS pdf von Bryan Garner

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.