"character list below for the supposed inspiration of individual characters). Although not a character, the ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"" case is a vital part of the novel. It is believed to have been inspired by a number of real-life Chancery cases involving wills, including those of Charles Day and William Jennens, and of Charlotte Smith's father-in-law Richard Smith. Much criticism of ""Bleak House"" focuses on its unique narrative structure: it is told both by a third-person omniscient narrator and a first-person narrator (Esther Summerson). The omniscient narrator speaks in the present tense and is a dispassionate observer. Esther Summerson tells her"
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in ""Bleak House"" (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device in the novel and has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal proceedings. Dickens refers to the case as ""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"", the way it would be spoken of. The ""v"" in the case title is an abbreviation of the Latin ""versus"", but is normally pronounced ""and"" for civil cases in England and Wales. ""Jarndyce v Jarndyce"" concerns the fate of a large inheritance."
"set ""Bleak House"" around raised hopes in (""Jarndyce and Jarndyce"") a near-incomprehensible, decades-long case in Chancery, involving a decision on an increasingly old Will which was rendered useless as all of the deceased's wealth was unknowingly to the central character prospective beneficiaries absorbed in legal costs. Reform swiftly followed. Certain 1870s to 1899 Acts (the Judicature Acts) merged the courts of law and those of equity and enacted a halt to in the position of Vice-Chancellor — which lasted from 1875 until 1971. From 1971 until October 2005, the revived high judicial office was called the Vice-Chancellorship (and the judge"
"were commenced in 1837 and not concluded until at least 1854. The second of these cases is generally identified as the dispute over the will of the ""Acton Miser"" William Jennens of Acton, Suffolk. ""Jennens v Jennens"" commenced in 1798 and was abandoned in 1915 (117 years later) when the legal fees had exhausted the Jennens estate of funds; thus it had been ongoing for 55 years when ""Bleak House"" was published. Some commentators have theorised that the ""Jarndyce v Jarndyce"" case was inspired by the dispute over the will of Richard Smith, a West India merchant. When he died"
"and that the bloodline continues to this day. Brown apparently alluded to the two authors' names in his book. Leigh Teabing, a lead character in both the novel and the film, uses Leigh's name as the first name, and anagrammatically derives his last name from Baigent's. Mr Justice Peter Smith found in Brown's favor in the case, and as a private amusement, embedded his own Smithy code in the written judgment. On March 28, 2007, Brown's publisher, Random House, won an appeal copyright infringement case. The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rejected the efforts from Baigent and Leigh,"
"culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s. There is some debate among scholars as to when ""Bleak House"" is set. The English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth sets the action in 1827; however, reference to preparation for the building of a railway in Chapter LV suggests the 1830s. Sir Leicester Dedlock and his wife Honoria live on his estate at Chesney Wold. Unknown to Sir Leicester, before she married, Lady Dedlock had a lover, Captain Hawdon, and had a daughter by him. Lady Dedlock believes her daughter is dead. The daughter, Esther, is in fact alive and"
"himself worked as a clerk near Chancery Lane, wrote ""Bleak House"" in 1853, depicting a fictional case of ""Jarndyce v Jarndyce"", a Chancery matter about wills that nobody understood and dragged on for years and years. Within twenty years, separate courts of equity were abolished. Parliament merged the common law and equity courts into one system with the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873. Equitable principles would prevail over common law rules in case of conflict, but the separate identity of equity had ended. The separate identity of the trust, however, continued as strongly as before. In other parts of"
"referred to as a ""bawdy house"" or ""brothel"". Smithhart pleaded guilty a number of times over her operation. Lawsuits were filed by Amelia Gabe and daughter Annie. The Gabe family lived directly across the street from the bawdy house. Amelia Gabe said in her suit that for more than 10 years she had had to put up with the ""lewd and lascivious conduct"" and the ""boisterous, profane, vulgar and obscene language"" of people coming and going from Smithhart's business. The lawsuit was unsuccessful and caused tension between Smithhart and city authorities. But her business suffered a serious fire in mid-January"
"Jarndyce"" was used as the name of a bank in the 1996 television film ""The Treasure Seekers"". The case is referred to (indirectly by reference to Bleak House) in the United States Supreme Court case Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 462 (2010). ""Willful Behavior"" by Donna Leon, p. 308, Penguin Books 2010 Jarndyce and Jarndyce Jarndyce and Jarndyce (or Jarndyce v Jarndyce) is a fictional court case in ""Bleak House"" (1852-3) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device in the novel and has become a byword for seemingly interminable legal"
"contested the will on the ground of incapacity and undue influence. (The brothers had been the decedent's executor in the will but by codicil executed after he was struck with paralysis that rendered him nearly speechless were removed.) The proceedings took on a ""Bleak House""-like life of its own (the Dickens novel having only been published three years before) with eminent counsel on all sides. The estate was worth over $1.5 million at the beginning of the trial. There were 111 days of testimony before the Surrogate and two weeks of oral argument before the case closed on November 23,"
"to her. The length of the proceedings led the Chief Justice to compare it to the infamous fictional lawsuit ""Jarndyce v. Jarndyce"" in Charles Dickens's novel ""Bleak House"", which dragged on for over a century and brought nothing but ruin to the parties. Stern v. Marshall Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. 462 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a bankruptcy court, as a non-Article III court (i.e. courts without full judicial independence) lacked constitutional authority under Article III of the United States Constitution to enter a final judgment on a state law"
"character's first name was never fully given, although in the third-season episode ""Accomplice to Murder"" his name is shown on a business card as ""R. Quincy"" and in early episodes the name ""Dr R. Quincy"" appears on his door.) He was called ""Winslow"" in the episode where he married Anita Gillette. In his investigations, Quincy frequently comes into conflict with his boss, Dr. Robert Asten (John S. Ragin), and the police, in particular, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Frank Monahan (Garry Walberg). Quincy and Asten would usually tussle 37 minutes into an episode, after which time Quincy would close the case for"
"enter previous cases, but failed. Had two years of law school before he met Marlee. Marlee: The girlfriend and outside contact of Nicholas Easter. Real name is Gabrielle Brant. Parents died due to smoking. Has since meeting Jeff Kerr, schemed to follow and benefit from tobacco litigation. Frederick Harkin: The judge in the case ""Wood v. Pynex"" Loreen Duke: Black female juror. Divorced with two children. Voted for plaintiff. Angel Weese: Fellow black female juror. Boyfriend is Derrick Maples, who was bribed by Rohr to try to convince Angel to vote for plaintiff. Although this attempt was unsuccessful, she nevertheless"
"was the judge who presided over her second child's adoption. During ""The Darkest Knight"", Hanna Marin helds Noel hostage in an attempt to obtain a confession from him that proves he's their tormentor, but Kahn doesn't regain consciousness. Impatient, she instead ends up slashing one of his legs with a knife in order to test his DNA and see if it matches Mary's. The results later come back negative and Noel ends up escaping. The Liars all get a text message ordering them to head over to 1465, Elm Street. Once the girls arrive to the location, they make their"
"does special sessions. They have been given full names also: Padraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy. Each episode follows the same pattern: Rodge, the dumber of the two, arrives home. Originally the pair would get into bed but in recent seasons they sit at the kitchen table. They talk about what Rodge was doing, with Podge usually insulting him. This leads Podge on to telling a story (acted out by live actors) about some people (whose names are usually sexual innuendos, e.g. Enda Meshank, Chris Peacock, Ulick McGee) who inevitably come to an unpleasant end. Rodge interrupts the story"
"dissented from the decision that it had been committed by ""unknown"" culprits. He was never reelected. Decades later, his youngest daughter, Lily Bangert, wrote a play about the event. Near the 70th anniversary of Evans' lynching, the playwright was fatally shot by her husband — her play never making it the stage. The manuscript was copyrighted on October 13, 1981. One of the lead characters, Judge William Daniels, accuses another character, Fletcher Belcher, of being the real culprit, not Evans or Tobin. The playwright uses the real names of Belcher, Wilcox, the doctor who treated Ms. Sherman, and the police"
"Jarndyce"" hangs over the heads of many conflicting heirs, confused by multiple wills. Possible beneficiary John Jarndyce of Bleak House welcomes orphaned cousins Ada Clare and Richard Carstone—also potential heirs—as his wards, and has hired Esther Summerson as a housekeeper and companion for Ada. Lady Honoria Dedlock, married to the imperious baronet Sir Leicester, is also a possible beneficiary of the estate. The Dedlocks' lawyer, Tulkinghorn, sniffs out a connection between Lady Dedlock and a newly deceased man called Nemo; as he tries to discover Nemo's true identity, Lady Dedlock secretly seeks information about the dead man herself. Meanwhile, Richard"
"""Bleak House"" is reputed to be based on Charles Frederick Field, the policeman who investigated Walter Palmer's death for his insurers. Dickens called Palmer ""the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"". The salutation ""What's your poison?"" is thought to be a reference to the events. The film ""The Life and Crimes of William Palmer"" was released in 1998, with Keith Allen playing the part of Palmer. In the Sherlock Holmes short story, ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"", while commenting on the apparent villain, Dr. Grimesby Roylott, Holmes tells Dr. Watson that when a doctor goes bad"
"man repeatedly played ""Leave a Tender Moment Alone"" on a jukebox. Out of sheer boredom with the convention and to ""have somebody to drink with"", House paid for the damage, bailed him out, and hired an attorney to clear Wilson's name (who failed to do so), starting their professional and personal relationship. House says multiple times during the series that he is a ""board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty in infectious disease and nephrology."" Approximately ten years before the beginning of the series, House entered into a relationship with Stacy Warner, a constitutional lawyer, after she shot him during a"
"House to continue practicing medicine if he pleads guilty and spends two months in rehab. Meanwhile, House uses a dead patient's name to obtain Oxycodone pills as a Vicodin replacement drug. When he visits Tritter early the next morning to agree to the deal, Tritter says the deal is off, after going through the pharmacy's log and reading that House signed for a dead man's drugs. In the final days leading up to House's court case, House realizes the severity of the situation and finally apologizes to Tritter (episode ""Words and Deeds""). When Tritter refuses to accept the apology, House"
"often hindered, by two less-than-intelligent sidekicks, his servant Baldrick (Tony Robinson), and Lord Percy Percy (Tim McInnerny), heir to the Duchy of Northumberland, with whom Blackadder has a grudging friendship. Throughout the series, Blackadder's chief rival is Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry), the Queen's pretentious and grovelling Lord Chamberlain. Melchett is himself in fear of upsetting the Queen, and thus attempts to outdo Blackadder by supporting the Queen in whatever current fad she is interested in. Comic relief in the Court is provided by the Queen's rather demented former nanny, Nursie (Patsy Byrne). Baldrick, who in the first series was the"
"if he was practicing formally as a barrister, but it was at this time that he re-emerges out of the shadows as a player in one of the most notorious legal cases of the era, that of the Gloucester Miser. James or more popularly Jemmy Wood was the proprietor of one of the oldest private banks in the kingdom, probably the first commoner in England to become a millionaire and a noted miser. Charles Dickens is thought to have modelled Ebenezer Scrooge on him. The Chancery case following his death and disputed will may form the theme of ‘Bleak House’."
"was never adopted by him. She took ten years off her age, although there was no confirmation that she used the alternative birthdate on any legal document. Family members insisted that the name change was only a facet of Summer's mental illness. Investigators and the public also focused on McStay's business partner, Chase Merritt, who was the last known person to have had contact with Joseph McStay, and was the first to notice his disappearance. According to state records, Merritt had felony convictions for burglary and receiving stolen property. His most recent felony conviction, in 2001, was for the theft"
"legal fees. Richard collapses, overcome by tuberculosis, and soon dies. Allan professes his love for Esther, who rebuffs him out of obligation to John, and a pregnant Ada returns to Bleak House. John releases Esther from their engagement, knowing that she really loves Allan. Esther and Allan marry, with all in attendance. The adaptation is eight hours in length and covers most of the characters and storylines in the novel. Characters from the book who are not present include the wife of Snagsby, the law stationer; the wife and grandson of the moneylender Smallweed; the law clerk Tony Jobling; the"
"body will soon fall into the background now"" (chap. 3). This does not turn out to be true. For most readers and scholars, the central concern of ""Bleak House"" is its indictment of the English Chancery court system. Chancery or equity courts were one half of the English civil justice system, existing side-by-side with law courts. Chancery courts heard actions having to do with wills and estates, or with the uses of private property. By the mid-nineteenth century, English law reformers had long criticised the delays of Chancery litigation, and Dickens found the subject a tempting target. (He already had"
"her name is actually ""Gwen Poole"", not Gwen Stacy, or even an alternate version of Gwen Stacy. Following the publication of the one-shot, an ongoing series titled ""The Unbelievable Gwenpool"" by the same creative team was announced, starting in April 2016. In the reality seen in the ""House of M"" storyline, in which the Scarlet Witch alters reality to make mutants the ruling class over humans, Gwen was never killed. Instead, she married Peter Parker, and the couple had a young son. She had become a scientist, a savvy businesswoman, and a peace activist – and had a decidedly hostile"
"largest and longest civil lawsuits in Massachusetts history. In addition to its length and cost, the trial was notable for attempts by lawyers of Telemachus ""Mike"" Demoulas to have Judge Lopez removed from the case due to allegations of bias after the jury found that he had defrauded his late brother George's family of shares in the family owned business. After numerous appeals however, Judge Lopez's rulings were upheld. Allegations of misconduct were raised by Lopez's former law clerk, Paul M. Walsh against attorneys for Telemachus Demoulas. He alleged that he was lured to Nova Scotia under the pretext of"
"Armstrong Lutz, still stand a few blocks from the Bleak House on Kingston Pike. Bleak House (Knoxville, Tennessee) Bleak House is an antebellum Classical Revival style house in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was first occupied by Robert Houston Armstrong and his wife, Louisa Franklin. It was built in 1858 for the couple as a wedding gift by the bride's father, Major Lawson D. Franklin. Robert Armstrong's father, Drury Armstrong, gave them the land. The Armstrongs named the house after Charles Dickens' ""Bleak House"" novel of the same name. The bricks in"
"many other sources also behind it. However, he claimed that neither he nor his wife had read Baigent and Leigh's book when he produced his original ""synopsis"" of the novel. Among Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh's arguments were that the given name of the character Sir Leigh Teabing's is the same of Richard Leigh's surname, and that ""Teabing"" is an anagram of ""Baigent"". On April 7, 2006, High Court judge Sir Peter Smith rejected the copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, and Random House won the court case. However, in the published extracts of his judgement the judge"
"two consecutive terms by an overwhelming majority. Jake believes that if the race issue is toned down, the jury might rule for Lettie on the case's own merits, i.e. that Seth Hubbard made his money himself and had the right to leave it to whoever he wanted and that he knew what he was doing when changing his will. First, Jake must get rid of a rabble-rousing black lawyer from Memphis, who goes to Clanton, involves himself in the case and makes a series of provocative acts which risk the chances of winning the case. Then, Lettie's husband, with whom"
"live from NBC's WJZ station in New York City and later from a sound stage at RKO Pictures in Los Angeles, California, before returning to WJZ for the final episodes. The program depicts the misadventures of a small New York law firm, with Groucho as attorney Waldorf T. Flywheel (a crooked lawyer) and Chico as Flywheel's assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli (a half-wit who Flywheel uses as a fall guy). The series was originally titled ""Beagle, Shyster, and Beagle"", with Groucho's character named Waldorf T. Beagle, until a real lawyer from New York named Beagle contacted NBC and threatened to file a"
"1900 and 1920. A significant precedent for Larsen's depiction of Clare and Jack's relationship was the 1925 legal trial known as the ""Rhinelander Case"" (or ""Rhinelander v. Rhinelander""). On the urging of his family, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white man, sued his wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, for annulment and fraud; he alleged that she had failed to inform him of her ""colored"" blood. The case concerned not only race but also status and class, as he had met her when she was working as a domestic. Although the jury eventually returned a verdict for Alice (she contended that her"
"Tribune"", who stated that Wilson can ""never, never, never, never"" leave the show. The character's name is derived from two neighboring buildings (James Administration Building and Wilson Hall) at McGill University's downtown campus, in Montreal, Quebec. Wilson is one of three brothers. He has an undergraduate degree from McGill University, and graduate degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. His father was Protestant and his mother was Jewish; he was raised in his mother's faith. Shortly after a medical convention in New Orleans, after graduating medical school, Wilson accidentally broke an antique mirror and started a bar fight"