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| Authored by: hedronist on Saturday, May 25 2013 @ 10:39 PM EDT |
| IANAL and all that. According to Wikipedia's entry
on this case (emphasis added):
Jarndyce v Jarndyce is a
fictional court case in the English Court of Chancery in the novel
Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 12:42 AM EDT |
Tell your grandchild to vist my grandchild when they are our ages, and see if
they can match their lives to this art:
Jarndyce v Jarndyce drones
on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so
complicated that
no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least, but it
has been observed
that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five
minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the
premises.
Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable old people have
died out of it. Scores
of persons have deliriously found themselves made
parties in Jarndyce v Jarndyce without knowing how or why;
whole families have
inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant who
was promised a
new rocking-horse when Jarndyce v Jarndyce should be settled has
grown up, possessed himself of a real horse,
and trotted away into the other
world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long
procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the
suit have been transformed into mere
bills of mortality; there are not three
Jarndyces left upon the earth perhaps since old Tom Jarndyce in despair blew
his brains out at a coffee-house in Chancery Lane; but Jarndyce v Jarndyce
still drags its dreary length before the
court, perennially
hopeless.
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- I hope - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 26 2013 @ 05:12 PM EDT
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