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Trusts & Trustees Advance Access originally published online on October 4, 2007
Trusts & Trustees 2007 13(10):591-592; doi:10.1093/tandt/ttm110
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Oh, Court of Equity!

John Goldsworth

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Oh! Court of Equity, misnamed, where doubt

Leads many in; whence few or none, get out;

These woeful opening lines of a poem ‘Court of Chancery’ by a Reginald James Blewitt in 1827, was the way he took up the tomahawk, as he termed it in his preface, against a dire national enemy. In practice, in Lincoln's Inn, he found the great delay and ruinous expenses of a Chancery suit had become proverbial. After giving up practice he found the tranquillity of the park at Fontainebleau more conducive to overcoming his previous anguished existence with his verse satirizing the tedium of proceedings, its expense and the follies and conceits of former colleagues. Former colleagues are named in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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