July Meeting
Our regular lunch meeting is scheduled for Monday,
July 20, 2015, at 12:00 p.m., at Tribeca, located at 127 Market House
Square. The price of the lunch is $12.50
(including tax and gratuity). Please
bring either cash or a check made payable to “McCracken County Bar
Association.”
Hon. Craig Z. Clymer, Judge, McCracken Circuit
Court, Division No. II, will be our speaker.
The topic will be Ancient Laws and Customs. This program has been approved by the Kentucky Bar Association for a one-half hour CLE credit. Judge
Clymer describes the program:
It is entitled “Ancient Laws and Customs”. We begin with the Code of Hammurabi 2285 B.C. and end with the redefinition of
marriage this past June. Forty five
hundred years of law in the time it takes you to eat a cheeseburger! Topics are:
marriage laws and customs; witchcraft and sorcery; judicial
independence; trial by battle, by ordeal, by torture, and by compurgation. The goal is for lawyers to examine from where
we came, so that we can better understand where we are, and where we will
be. William Knox wrote: “For we are the
same that our fathers have been.” Had we
lived in the dark days we would have viewed these customs and laws as did our
forefathers, and viewed them just.
These ancient laws are shocking to us
today. Will today’s laws be shocking
when viewed from the distant future?
Please RSVP to belinda@ml-lawfirm.com by Friday,
July 17, 2015, so that we can provide an accurate lunch count to Tribeca.