April 1888: Judge David Depue, charging an Essex County Grand Jury, said ineffectual police efforts to suppress "disorderly houses" could be remedied only by vigorous grand jury action. "The fault for this condition of affairs is not with the law, for the law holds not only the inmates of such houses indictable," he said. "The law has been settled that the owner of a house or his agent who rents a house, knowing that it is to be used for the purpose of a brothel, may also be indicted as the keeper."
100 Years Ago
May 1913: The Law Journal editors opposed a bill in the Legislature that would allow attorneys at law of 10 years’ standing to become counselors at law without taking the counselor’s examination. "We admit it is a little mortifying for an attorney of many years’ practice to be questioned like a schoolboy before being enabled to inform the judges of the Supreme Court … what the law is," but "there is the same reason for an examination after ten years’ practice as after three years," they said.
