University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Judge W. S. Sinilcin s Story of the Peregrinus You ask for the origin of Peregrinus. I well remember ts birth - in fact I was present at the accouchement. This nondescript sprang fully armed and equipped for ts mission not from a mental Jove, but from the ered brain of a Savage. Many years ago I was trying to explain to the class in Equity, the origin of the system in Rome and the sources of equity in the Roman Empire. At that time fledglings to do justice and decide all disputes, alone by the science of the Praetor. Peregrinating from one nation to the other, he was called a Praetor Peregrinus. The boneheads of the class evidently thought that Peregrinus was an internal organ of the body for they continually greeted each other, ' How is your Peregrinus today? ' This fact seems to have developed the humor- . ous side of the incident, and Russell Savage developed a concrete expression of it on the and thus tl the tradition began. Russell; drew better than he knew, for the script animal, symbolizes both in limb and ' attitude th maxims in equii ty that guide the tion of the tern . For instance, on one of the front feet as ly drawn was an Irish ditcher ' s boot - indicating the law ' s protection to the least of mankind. On the other front foot were naked claw s, indicating that the greatest of mankind must fear its power. The arched back in the attitude of springing, indicated that the law was ever ready to protect right or prevent wrong. The sharp beak indicated the power to penetrate the mysteries of the law which the true student must obtain by study. The bushy tail indicated that Equity brushes away the technicalities of the law and does justice to the merits. :just from the high schools were admitted to the Law School. Many of them had never heard of the Roman Empire, and not a few spelled cow with a ' K ' . Well, explained to them that when Rome quered a nation it was rated into the Roman Empire subject to its own laws and not to the laws of Rome - that the Roman citizen was not subject of the laws of these incorporated nations - that in due course commerce sprang up between the citizens of Rome and barbaric nations, and there was no law to determine and settle their contractual relations. The Roman Emperor, to settle the troubles arising out of the fact that there was no law applicable to control their con- tracts, appointed a Praetor or chancellor to travel among these nations and to settle all disputes without reference to the Laws of Rome, or of the incorporated Nations, but photo by Mark Sims

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1995 Peregriaux The University of Texas at Austin School of Law Volume 45 Austin, Texas 1)) {eaALJJ FOS 2 SUM 112 Ovganrvaiiion3 20 radox 116 Siudents 54 Spormors 121 Facu 92 AdverflUng 122 Yeathook Staff The 1995 Peregrinus was prepared by the student and professional staff of Texas Student Publications at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Editor-in-Chief Kristin Bodenstedt Contributing Writers John Dela Garza Melanie Gerik Alex De Marban Jill Warren Yearbook Supervisor Jerry Thompson Yearbook Assistant Mary Felps PhotographySupervisor John Foxworth Chief Photographer Mark Sims Contributing Photographers Victor Caivano Andrew Higdon Timothy Lee Jack Plunkett Table of Contents - 1