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Unexpounded explained
A brief satirical commentary on the legal profession, suggesting that lawyers focus on technicalities and documents rather than true justice.
What happens
A brief satirical commentary on the legal profession, suggesting that lawyers focus on technicalities and documents rather than true justice.
Themes in this chapter
Hypocrisy and Corruption
The chapter criticizes lawyers for prioritizing legal technicalities over true justice.
Key passages
“On Evidence, on Deeds, on Bills, On Copyhold, on Loans, on Wills, Lawyers great books indite. The creaking of their busy quills I never heard on Right.”
Lawyers write extensively about legal documents and procedures, but never about justice itself.
Highlights the disconnect between legal practice and moral right.