Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... Common Pleas , he very civilly asked him to drink some liquor . While the man was drinking , Davy contrived to heat a poker , and then asking what the parchment process was made of , and being answered , of sheepskin , he told the ...
... Common Pleas , he very civilly asked him to drink some liquor . While the man was drinking , Davy contrived to heat a poker , and then asking what the parchment process was made of , and being answered , of sheepskin , he told the ...
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... common law long enough , and that he ought hereafter to study the law of God . " CAUSES AND EFFECTS . AFTER the death of a certain barrister in an English county town , his household goods were brought to the hammer . One attending the ...
... common law long enough , and that he ought hereafter to study the law of God . " CAUSES AND EFFECTS . AFTER the death of a certain barrister in an English county town , his household goods were brought to the hammer . One attending the ...
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... common allowance of port and sack . Fourteen students waited at the bench table , among whom was Mr. Talbot , the Lord Chancellor's eldest son . A large gallery was built over the screen , and was filled with ladies ; the music was ...
... common allowance of port and sack . Fourteen students waited at the bench table , among whom was Mr. Talbot , the Lord Chancellor's eldest son . A large gallery was built over the screen , and was filled with ladies ; the music was ...
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... common jury declared to Mr. Warren , the barrister , that in a certain case he had resolved to give a verdict for the defendant ; but that all the others had determined to give a verdict for the plaintiff ; and after several hours ...
... common jury declared to Mr. Warren , the barrister , that in a certain case he had resolved to give a verdict for the defendant ; but that all the others had determined to give a verdict for the plaintiff ; and after several hours ...
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... common appearance , on the ground of a variance between the writ and the copy served ; the discrepancy being be- tween the words " sheriffs of London " in the one , and " sheriff of London " in the other . Eminent counsel were instantly ...
... common appearance , on the ground of a variance between the writ and the copy served ; the discrepancy being be- tween the words " sheriffs of London " in the one , and " sheriff of London " in the other . Eminent counsel were instantly ...
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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...