CASE- CASE-LAW VERSES.
These verses are produced with a view of fixing the names of parties in leading cases on the memory, and also of putting the reader on the track to find out, by means of the recognised works on the subject, whether, and it so where such cases have been under review. It is common knowledge that it is much easier to remember principles than the names of cases, and also how jingles are retained in the memory when much more elaborately constructed compositions are forgotten. This little volume, therefore, should answer its purpose, and be found useful to the professional man and
the student. –Australian Law Times, 13th June, 1908
The value of verse as an aid to memory has long been recognised. Who can forget those touching lines : — " Joshua, son of Nun, And Caleb, son of Jephunneh, Were the only two that ever got through to the land of milk and honey." Mr. F. R. Barlee, M.A., has ingeniously applied this ancient principle to the thorny subject of "case- law." There are indexes of cases cited and of subjects, and to those persons who are students of law these jingles should prove attractive and useful. Daily News, 1th April, 1908. –The Open Shelf [1917]
