IIT Chicago Kent College of Law - Transcript Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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'J Ni v THE HYPOTHETICAL ' QUESTION. Favorite weapon of judge Pickett. May be likened to double-edged sword. ' IGNORANTIA JURIS NON EX- CUSAT. A jollyfphrase of vener- able antiquity, used asa sturdy prop to bolster legal advice. INCORPOREAL. A student's ex- pression of the law as it exists in his own mind. A IN NUBIBUS. Term used to de- scribe graduate who has passed bar examination. INNUENDO. Used by professors when praising one student and at the same time fiaying another. IPSE DIXIT. Often heard imme- diately following examinations. JOHN DOE. A large land owner, the proprietor of Whiteac1'e and Blackacre, and the patron saint of legal actions. - LACHES. A common fault on the part of students. LEGAL ETHICS. A survey of what the Utopian lawyer would do if there were lawyers in Uto- pia. MEDIA NOX. The time for all students to extinguish the lamp. MENS REA. A feeling which comes when you are not prepared. MISTAKE OE LAW. An errone- ous conclusion as to the legal effect of known facts. NIHIL DICIT. Often true on Mon: day evenings. . NUDUM PACTUM. Agreement torassist in preparing assignment. OBITER DICTUM.. The cause of a good deal of near law. ORDINARY PRUDENT MAN. A mythical person, said to be related to John Doe and Richard Roe. PARTNERSHIP. Treading close P on the heels of agency. . 1925 Page I PERSONAL PROPERTY. A pleasing subject, inasmuch as money is defined as personal prop- erty. PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. A pleasing application of everyday principles to big business. PROXIMATE CAUSE. The first disturbing element of a class ex- plosion. QUANTUM MERUIT. A popular examination grade. QUID PRO QUO. Or what have you? REAL PROPERTY. A distinctly distasteful subject, the earthy smack of which would permeate the binding of the best book on that subject. REPUGNANCY. A feeling engen- dered by close contact with sure- tyship. RES IPSA LOQUITURJ An extra long assignment. SALES. Of an especial interest to students who sell flivvers during their leisure hours. SANS CEO QUE. See Absque Hoc. ' SCINTILLA. Nice word for sum- ming up to jury. SHIFTING- USE. An ancient rock kept fresh by the moss of time. SINE HOC QUOD. See Absque Hoc. STRAMINEUS HOMO. A man of straw. . SURETYSHIP AND' GUAR- ANTY. Next to bills and notes, one of the most confusing jumbles of Hors and ees, TORTS. The last clear chance to ascertain the proximate cause of the Squib case. TRESPASS DE BONIS ASPOR- TATIS. Taking 'em away. ' VVILLS. Always a delightful sub- ject, and rendered more so by the expositions of judge Pickett. X iii xl

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THE. 2 E c I Gherkin is Law Dictionary ASBQUE I-IOC. A term denoting one of the hurdles of the oddities of practice. I ACCOMMODATION I P A P E R . Your neighbor's answers during the examination period. . ACCRETION. The jumble of note- books remaining at the end of the third year. ADMIRALTY LAW. Maritime law interspersed with selections from Pinafore. ADOPTION. The act by which one student takes to himself the brain child of another. AGENCY. A course which has proved a boon to all married men. APPRENTICIUS AD LEGEM. A species of modern youth dis- tinguished by bulging eyes, lean purses and prodigious brief cases. BAILMENTS' AND CARRIERS. No one knew what could happen on a railroad until he had gone through the delightful treatise on bailments and carriers. BASE FEE. The lowest fee an at- torney can accept. BEST EVIDENCE. That which students try to present to judge Pickett. BILLS. Perhaps a choice subject at common law, but a feat of mem- ory under the N. I. L. BREACH OF CLOSE. Unwar- ' ranted entry of freshman. CAVEAT EMPTOR. . Term ap- plied to purchaser of second-hand ' law books. COMMON LAW PLEADING. Cod liver oil and sulphur admin- istered by an outgrown system of pleading. COMPAN-ION OE TI-IE GAR- TER. The other one. CONFLICT OF LAWS. Another one of judge Pickett's pet brain children. ' c 1925 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Log- ic and reason set forth in a man- ner which delights. CONTINGENCY WITI-I A DOU- BLE ASPE-CT. Answering twelve questions where only ten were required. CONTRACTS. Filled to the brim with cases relating to kegs of nails, pounds of herrings and other things dear to the heart of the old merchant. CRIMINAL LAW. Sometimes known as Pickett's Delight, wherein he revels and his victims flounder. CROSS-ERRORS. Those found in working cross-word puzzles. CY PRES. A doctrine often applied in answering examination ques- tions. DILATORY PLEA. One made by student who iscstalling for time. DIPLOMA. Lithographed an- nouncement of what we hope we are. ' DOMESTIC RELATIONS. A jestful subject, filled to the brim with the tang and zip of countless wrangles, and thereby proving a bane to the instructors in co-edu- cational law schools. DORMANT PARTNER. .Those who adorn benches at the rear of room during class periods. DURESS. Restraint of students after class period. Q E Q U I T Y JURISPRUDENCE. One dozen maxims served with trimmings. I EQUITY PLEADING. Something with a double aspect always lurk- ing to ambush the unwary. ET UXOR. Can be said of a num- ber of students. EVIDENCE. Always a bit differ- ent fromjwhat you thought it was. EX' 1 1 I .R Page 163

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THE ! . Book Reviews Practice in the Supreme Court 'Che- caugau, by How Kumm.. Chicago Self Help Publishing Company, 1925. Pp. XIII + 711. Practical books on court practice will always be in demand. Students will wel- come them as an aid in the application of their knowledge to the mechanics of court practice. Youngsters at the bar will step into the courtroom fortified by the moral support of a handbook of practice on which they can rely for the poise and mental equipment of the older practitioner, and even the more experienced barristers, the scarred veterans of many legal battles, will ind in this volume a handy manual and guide to the complicated practice of the Supreme Court of Checaugau. A chapter is devoted to surly minute clerks and how to overcome the embarrassment and discomfiture often felt in the first verbal combat with one of these lord high pooh-bahs of the courtroom. The application of jiu jitsu to actions displayed by the clerks fifteen minutes be- fore closing time is explained in a manner which is invaluable to practitioners, and we hope will assist. Mr. Kumm explains the art of crowding to the head of the line without incurring the antagonism of those behind you. He has also, drawing upon the storehouse of his ovtrn experience, de- vised a number of games which can be played by counsel and litigants from 9:30 to 10:00 A. M. while waiting for the court to appear. Luncheon menus for the 12:00 to 2:30 recess are included, and numerous hints for the adjournment of court at 4:00 rather than 4:30, together with rules for their employment, are given. Various forms and needs of this court are explained. All of the leading Circuit with the Supreme are digested under headings. book is of necessity this particular field, Court eases dealing Court of Checaugau the appropriate topic While Mr. Kumm's a new undertaking in we feel that it fills a longfelt Want and that it should be in the hands of every student and lawyer. It is bound in red flexible ealfskin, of a size that makes it easy to carry in a pocket. We cannot recommend this work too highly. Illustrative Breach of Promise Cases, by K. Of Taventold, Second Edition, Humbug Series, Meanwell and Company, 1925. Pp. XX -1- 2459. ' Professor Taventold's first edition has been lately revised by him, with the result' that an already complete work has been brought down to date. It now contains references and citations to all of the lead- ing breach of promise eases in the United States, together with rare and choice tid- bits from the leading British cases. Pro- fessor Taventold has produced a volume which should grace the library of every young practitioner. It is seldom that a lawyer of his age and experience can be persuaded to depart from the well defined paths of those who have gone before, but in this second edition of Professor Tav- entold's work, he has so far departed from the ordinary legal style that his book could be read with some degree of under- standing and enjoyment by the layman. Not only does the professor understand the law relating to breach of promise, but he has embellished his work with extracts from a number of cases, some of which have never been made public before. Coupled with this will be found a train of personal reminiscences drawn from the inexhaustible storehouse of Professor Taventold's wide experience as the beau brummel of divorce lawyers. Seldom has a book of such pronounced excellence come to our editorial notice. nw I Negotiable Instruments and Otherwise, by Always Stung, Hollywood, California, Traffic Press, 1925. Pp. XV -1- 537. A book of this character is indeed a novelty to the professionf It is another one of these volumes that can be read with pleasure and profit by either the practitioner or the layman. Mr. Always Stung tells of the various instruments, negotiable and otherwise, which have come to his attention during the past thirty years. One of the first chapters deals with the subject of IOU's and treats of this in a most exhaustive manner. An- other chapter is devoted to the history of beer chips and meal tickets. Streetcar transfers and commutation tickets and their history, together with an entertain- ing dissertation on other quaint and curi- ous quasi-negotiable instruments are cov- ered in this remarkable work. Its value lies most in the historical character of its descriptions and references, and we would heartily recommend the book to the busy practitioner, unless in his work he comes constantly in contact with instruments of the kind described above. ' CR Page 165