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

Bryan Garner (né le 17 novembre 1958) est un avocat, grammairien et lexicographe américain. Il écrit également sur la jurisprudence (et occasionnellement sur le golf). Il est l'auteur de plus de 25 livres, dont les plus connus sont Garner's Modern English Usage (4e éd. 2016) et Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012—co-écrit avec le juge Antonin Scalia), ainsi que quatre versions intégrales éditions du Black's Law Dictionary. Il est professeur émérite de recherche en droit à la Southern Methodist University. Il enseigne également de temps à autre à la faculté de droit de l'Université du Texas, à la faculté de droit Texas A&M et à la faculté de droit Texas Tech. En 2009, il a été nommé Auteur de rédaction juridique et d'ouvrages de référence de la décennie lors d'une cérémonie de remise des prix Burton à la Bibliothèque du Congrès. Il a reçu de nombreux autres prix, dont le Benjamin Franklin Book Award, le Scribes Book Award, le Bernie Siegan Award et un Lifetime Achievement Award du Center for Plain Language. Son travail a joué un rôle central dans notre compréhension du jugement moderne, du plaidoyer, de la grammaire, de l'usage de l'anglais, de la lexicographie juridique et du système de jurisprudence de la common law. Ses livres sont fréquemment cités par les tribunaux américains de tous niveaux, y compris la Cour suprême des États-Unis.

A NEW MISCELLANY-AT-LAW: YET ANOTHER DIVERSION FOR LAWYERS AND OTHERS pdf par 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.