Certainly lawyers can not rail at theologians for adhesion to
traditional forms.
An author who inveighed against the practise of lawyers drawing
long deeds and settlements, thus satirized it: “If a man were
to give to another an orange he would merely say, ‘I give you
this orange’; but when the transaction is entrusted to the
hands of a lawyer to put it in writing, he adopts this form, ‘I
hereby give, grant and convey to you all and singular my estate
and interest, right, title, claim and advantage of and in the
said orange, together with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp,
and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power
to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give the
same away as fully and effectually as I, the said A B, am now
entitled to bite, cut, suck, or otherwise eat the same orange,
or give the same away, with or without its rind, skin, juice,
pulp, and pips, anything hereinbefore or hereinafter, or in any
other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments, of what nature
or kind soever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.’”
(Text.)--CROAKE JAMES, “Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.”
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