Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... attorney who had been carrying on a correspondence with a young lady , in which he had always , as he thought , expressed himself with the greatest caution . Finding , however , that he did not perform what he had led the lady to ...
... attorney who had been carrying on a correspondence with a young lady , in which he had always , as he thought , expressed himself with the greatest caution . Finding , however , that he did not perform what he had led the lady to ...
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... attorney , did not mean that he did not intend any prejudice to the lady ; and the jury found accordingly . A MISTAKE . Or the few defects of Lord Tenterden , the greatest was his different measure of patience and courtesy for different ...
... attorney , did not mean that he did not intend any prejudice to the lady ; and the jury found accordingly . A MISTAKE . Or the few defects of Lord Tenterden , the greatest was his different measure of patience and courtesy for different ...
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... attorney , missing one or two other masters , whom he inquired after , ventured to ask if Mr. would be able to receive the deposition . The proposal seemed to give him momentary strength ; his clerk was sent for , and the oath taken in ...
... attorney , missing one or two other masters , whom he inquired after , ventured to ask if Mr. would be able to receive the deposition . The proposal seemed to give him momentary strength ; his clerk was sent for , and the oath taken in ...
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... attorneys for books , that might enable him to distin- guish himself ; but in vain . He moved , however , for the writ , making the best use he could of the observa- tions in the brief . The judge was perfectly astonished , and the ...
... attorneys for books , that might enable him to distin- guish himself ; but in vain . He moved , however , for the writ , making the best use he could of the observa- tions in the brief . The judge was perfectly astonished , and the ...
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... attorney , and told him what he had heard . The attorney instantly drove off to his junior counsel ; a second consultation was fixed ; the blot was acknowledged to exist , to the consterna- tion of the plaintiff's attorney , a very able ...
... attorney , and told him what he had heard . The attorney instantly drove off to his junior counsel ; a second consultation was fixed ; the blot was acknowledged to exist , to the consterna- tion of the plaintiff's attorney , a very able ...
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Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches David Laing Purves Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches David Laing Purves Vista de fragmentos - 1868 |
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Página 149 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Página 80 - I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any subject within this Realm; howbeit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof, for if my head would win him a castle in France (for then there was war between us), it should not fail to go.
Página 38 - He rose slowly from his seat : he left the woolsack with deliberation ; but he went not to the nearest place, like ordinary Chancellors, the sons of mortal men ; he drew back by a pace or two, and, standing as it were askance, and partly behind the huge bale he had quitted for a season, he began to pour out, first in a growl, and then in a clear and louder roll, the matter which he had to deliver, and which for the most part consisted in some positive assertions, some personal vituperation, some...
Página 125 - I am worn to death ; here have we been, sitting on in the vacation, from nine in the morning until four, and when we leave this place I have to read through all my papers to be ready for to-morrow morning; but the most extraordinary part of all is, that Eldon, who has not only mine, but all the other business to go through, is just as cheerful and untired as ever.
Página 85 - Both these might be performed by deputy; but the principal was to answer for the success of the trial, the deputy only venturing some corporal pain for hire, or perhaps for friendship.
Página 26 - Page, who, joined to the other judges, Serjeants, and benchers present, danced, or rather walked, round about the coal fire, according to the old ceremony, three times, during which they were aided in the figure of the dance by Mr. George Cooke, the prothonotary, then...