LANGUAGE OF THE LAW.

If a man would, according to law, give to another an orange, instead

of saying, 'I give you that orange,' which one would think would be

what is called in legal phraseology 'an absolute conveyance of all

right and title therein,' the phrase would run thus:--'I give you all

and singular my estate and interest, right, title, and claim, and

advantage of and in that orange, with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp,

and pips, and right and advantages therein, with full power to bite,

cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away, as fully

and as effectually as I, the said A. B., am now inclined to bite, cut,

suck, or otherwise eat the same orange or give the same away, with or

without its rind, skin, juice, pulp, or pips, anything heretofore or

hereinafter, or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments,

of what nature or kind soever, to the contrary in anywise

notwithstanding;' with much more to the same effect. Such is the

language of lawyers; and it is gravely held by the most learned men

among them, that by the omission of any of these words, the right to

the said orange would not pass to the person for whose use the same

was intended.--_Newspaper paragraph_.

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