Charles v Prior of Royston (c1440) petitioner possessed ‘the Kinges foul called an Estrich’.Petitioner earned income charging the public to view the bird but complained that the defendant had taken & exhibited it ‘in the common strete & hym openly made to be seyn for nought of all manner of people.’

Not on your point precisely, but a great case from the US is the ‘ghostbusters’ ruling (Stambovsky v. Ackley, 1991) –
available here: casetext.com/case/stambov.... Vendor prevented from denying previous claims that house was haunted; court grants rescission. Some funs puns in the judgment too, e.g.:

RIP Jimmy Carter - pictured here, aged 95, volunteering in Nashville after sustaining injuries from a fall that morning. A life well lived.

Home for Christmas

Seen in the archives bookstore today.

Consulting restoration chancery records at The National Archives.

This volume is over 850 folios long.

And comes with a health warning.

They smell great though. Like wood smoke and dry fried spices.

Recent masterpiece from private eye.

The Chief Justice of Canada, (Richard Wagner) explaining why pre-1970 cases will be not translated into both official languages:

Peter assesses the quality of my handiwork… 👀

So zen.

Rewatched 'To Kill a Mockingbird' recently – had never noticed Boo Radley is played by Robert Duvall. It was Duvall's film debut.

Forcing the process server to eat the subpoena (wax seal and all) is quite the reaction to being sued…

Feeling sorry for sixteenth century chancery defendants unable to attend court due to (int. al.): gout, suspected UTI, injury sustained during galley slavery, and rapier wounds.

(WJ Jones, Elizabethan Court of Chancery, 1967, p. 223)

This is where we all go to post pictures of cats now, right?