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

Bryan Garner (nato il 17 novembre 1958) è un avvocato, grammatico e lessicografo americano. Scrive anche di giurisprudenza (e occasionalmente di golf). È autore di oltre 25 libri, i più noti dei quali sono Garner's Modern English Usage (4a ed. 2016) e Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (2012 — coautore con il giudice Antonin Scalia), oltre a quattro integrali edizioni di Black's Law Dictionary. È Distinguished Research Professor of Law presso la Southern Methodist University. Di tanto in tanto insegna anche alla University of Texas School of Law, alla Texas A&M School of Law e alla Texas Tech School of Law. Nel 2009, è stato nominato autore del decennio di testi legali e libri di riferimento durante una cerimonia dei Burton Awards presso la Library of Congress. Ha ricevuto molti altri premi, tra cui il Benjamin Franklin Book Award, lo Scribes Book Award, il Bernie Siegan Award e un Lifetime Achievement Award dal Center for Plain Language. Il suo lavoro ha svolto un ruolo centrale nella nostra comprensione del giudizio moderno, dell'advocacy, della grammatica, dell'uso dell'inglese, della lessicografia legale e del sistema dei precedenti di common law. I suoi libri sono spesso citati dai tribunali americani di tutti i livelli, inclusa la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti.

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