“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.” UseFacesLawScienceJusticePicksUncertaintyGloriousPocketsProfessorsHocus Pocus Book:Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825 Source: Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825