December 1885: One of the recent court rule changes adopted by the Legislature amended the Practice Act to allow partial failure of consideration to be raised as a ground for abatement of damages in actions on contracts under seal, which historically did not require consideration to be enforceable. “This provision … seems to remove the last important distinction between sealed contracts and simple contracts,” the Law Journal editors observed, “and it suggests the question why all equitable defenses should not be allowed to be set up in a common law suit.”
100 Years Ago
December 1910: “Fugitive criminals adopt strange devices to avoid being brought to justice,” a contributor noted. “Perhaps the most popular method in the case of desperate rogues is to get locked up for some trivial offense. … A man who is being hunted by the police for some serious crime will throw a brick through a window or pretend to be drunk or assault a constable merely in order to secure just a temporary sentence of about fourteen days’ imprisonment, at the expiration of which period the tension has been relieved to a considerable degree and the vigilance of the police relaxed.”
75 Years Ago
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