The Law
When we’ve nothing to dread from the law’s sternest frowns,
We all laugh at the barrister’s wigs, bags, and gowns;
But as soon as we want them to sue or defend,
Then their laughter begins, and our mirth’s at an end.
Old Epigram.
“Whate’er is best administered is best,” may truly be said of a judicial system, and the due distribution of justice depends much more upon the rules by which suits are to be conducted than on the perfection of the code by which rights are defined.—Lord Campbell, “Lives of the Chancellors.”