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English
Noun
metwand (plural metwands)
- Alternative form of metewand
- a. 1634, Edward Coke, quoted in William S. Holdsworth, "Sir Edward Coke", Cambridge Law J, Cambridge, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 338 (1935)
- ... was a skilful pleader; and to be a skilful pleader exactness of expression was essential. He was a skilful advocate; and to be a skilful advocate lucidity of expression was essential. He could arrest attention by a pointed expression — 'good pleading,' he said, 'is the heart-string of the common law'; by a fine phrase — 'the gladsome light of jurisprudence'; or by a striking metaphor — 'the laws of England are the golden metwand whereby all men's causes are justly and evenly measured.'