Price One Shilling.
“Mr. Herbert Lloyd gives us a succession of stories which may reasonably be taken to have their origin in the experience of a lawyer practicing at large in the criminal courts. It is natural that they should be of a romantic nature; but romance is not foreign to a lawyer’s consulting room, so that this fact need not be charged against this lawyer’s veracity.... The stories, seven in all, cover the ground of fraud and murder, inspired by the prevailing causes of crime—greed and jealousy. Our lawyer is happy in having the majority of his clients the innocent victims of false charges inspired and fostered in a great measure by their own folly; but this is a natural phase of professional experience, and we are only concerned with the fact that he generally manages it as effectively in the interests of his clients as his editor does in presenting them to his audience.”—Literary World.
“A volume of entertaining stories.... The book has much the same interest as a volume of detective stories, except that putting the cases in a lawyer’s mouth gives them a certain freshness. It is well written, and makes a capital volume for a railway journey.”—The Scotsman.
“A very entertaining volume.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette.
Footnotes:
[1] This and other documents have been collected by Mr. T. J. de’ Massinghi, whose monagraph on “Sanctuaries” (Stafford, 1888) is the chief source of information on the subject.
[2] See Andrews’ “Old Church Lore,” 1891, and the authorities there cited.
[3] The material facts in this paper up to this point are derived from Thevenin’s Textes relatifs aux Institutions privées and Du Cange art. investitura.
[4] Williams’ “Real Property Law.”