Everything will come easier to us after we have that settled.

Have you any objection to our proposal ?" "What proposal ?" "Come now.

I know that it's quite the correct thing for judges to ask ridiculous and silly questions, affecting not to know what everybody in the world knows quite well.

There was one the other day--I don't think it was you--who inquired quite solemnly what a 'bike' was; and I recollect another--it was in a horse-racing case--who pretended not to know the meaning of the phrase 'two to one on.' I don't profess to understand why you all do that kind of thing, but I'm willing to suppose that there's some good reason for it.

I daresay it's what's called a legal fiction, and is an essential part of the machinery by which justice is administered.