Law and Lawyers: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesW. P. Nimmon, 1868 - 154 páginas |
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... Hand - John Clerk . A Good Apology A Judge in the Stocks - Lord Camden " A Mere Novelty " -Lord Stowell's Phrase A Mistake of Lord Tenterden A Nice Objection A Pastoral Paradox A very Nice Distinction American Justice - The Two Quakers ...
... Hand - John Clerk . A Good Apology A Judge in the Stocks - Lord Camden " A Mere Novelty " -Lord Stowell's Phrase A Mistake of Lord Tenterden A Nice Objection A Pastoral Paradox A very Nice Distinction American Justice - The Two Quakers ...
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... some little delay , it was decided that the ice should be entered as " dry goods ; " but the whole cargo had melted before the cargo was cleared up ! A COOL HAND . MUSICAL COMPARISON . 17 THE infamous 16 LAW AND LAWYERS .
... some little delay , it was decided that the ice should be entered as " dry goods ; " but the whole cargo had melted before the cargo was cleared up ! A COOL HAND . MUSICAL COMPARISON . 17 THE infamous 16 LAW AND LAWYERS .
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... HAND . WHEN Mr. John Clerk ( afterwards Lord Eldin ) was at the bar , he was remarkable for the sang - froid with which he treated the judges . On one occasion , a junior counsel , on hearing their lordships give judg- ment against his ...
... HAND . WHEN Mr. John Clerk ( afterwards Lord Eldin ) was at the bar , he was remarkable for the sang - froid with which he treated the judges . On one occasion , a junior counsel , on hearing their lordships give judg- ment against his ...
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... hand , put aside his Scotch cicerone , who was volunteering an explanation , and said , with his usual cool , good - natured nonchulance , " Young man , I will save you the trouble you are about to undertake : I understand all this ...
... hand , put aside his Scotch cicerone , who was volunteering an explanation , and said , with his usual cool , good - natured nonchulance , " Young man , I will save you the trouble you are about to undertake : I understand all this ...
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... hand to his heart , and declared that he was the trusty guardian of his own honour : upon which Sir Boyle Roche congratulated his honourable friend on the snug little sinecure he had discovered for himself . LEGAL COURTSHIP . DUNNING ON ...
... hand to his heart , and declared that he was the trusty guardian of his own honour : upon which Sir Boyle Roche congratulated his honourable friend on the snug little sinecure he had discovered for himself . LEGAL COURTSHIP . DUNNING ON ...
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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...