Many involve nice points of law, and require a written judgment in well-chosen words.
The work of the County Court Judge at the present day is simply enormous; it is ceaseless and never finished, and it demands a patience which nothing can ruffle.

No matter how much falsehood may annoy him, a Judge with arbitrary power entrusted to him must not permit indignation alone to govern his decision.

He must make allowances for all.
For the County Court in country districts has become a tribunal whose decisions enter, as it were, into the very life of the people.

It is not concerned with a few important cases only; it has to arrange and finally settle what are really household affairs.

Take any village, and make inquiries how many householders there are who have not at one time or other come under the jurisdiction of the County Court?
Either as Plaintiff, or Defendant, or as witness, almost every one has had such experience, and those who have not have been threatened with it.