Miscellanies

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Repository of miscellanies on the Law.

Mercy Outside the Vermillion Line

(Chinese Emperor Exercises Mercy By Red Paint)

Rantings Against a Judicial "Not"

(Karl Marx's Vituperative Comments Against Judge Schlickmann's Judgment Affirming the Dismissal of His Defamation Case)

Laws as Cobwebs

(The Philosopher Anacharsis' Comments on Laws as Depicted by Claude Paradin, 1551)

Saint Augustine of Hippo on the Study of Law

(From Book III of St. Augustine's Confessions)

Lincoln's Notes for a Lecture on Law

(Lincoln's Notes for a Lecture on Law, ca. 1850s)

Freud's Kettle Logic

(From Freud's Intepretation of Dreams and Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious)