Law and Lawyers in LiteratureSoule Bugbee, 1882 - 413 էջ |
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... turns , all night . But after all , this fine image with head of gold has feet of clay . What is the evidence upon which the eleven are so ready to convict the prisoner of robbery ? The offence charged is the robbery of a bank - vault ...
... turns , all night . But after all , this fine image with head of gold has feet of clay . What is the evidence upon which the eleven are so ready to convict the prisoner of robbery ? The offence charged is the robbery of a bank - vault ...
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... turns out that the law was only a trick to test the morals of the young people of the realm : nobody was put to death , and the supposed victims are produced at the close to confront their putative unkind survivors .. The bad sons are ...
... turns out that the law was only a trick to test the morals of the young people of the realm : nobody was put to death , and the supposed victims are produced at the close to confront their putative unkind survivors .. The bad sons are ...
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... turn stark dull upon it ; " and the Fox replies , " It will take off his oratory's edge . " When the lawyer reads the pretended will , there is a scene . Mosca , in a passage of exquisite irony , says , - " Marry , my joy is that you ...
... turn stark dull upon it ; " and the Fox replies , " It will take off his oratory's edge . " When the lawyer reads the pretended will , there is a scene . Mosca , in a passage of exquisite irony , says , - " Marry , my joy is that you ...
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... turns the tables on the Fox by exposing to the court the false accusation against Celia : " It is not passion in me , reverend fathers , But only conscience , - conscience , my good sires , That makes me now tell truth . " However , at ...
... turns the tables on the Fox by exposing to the court the false accusation against Celia : " It is not passion in me , reverend fathers , But only conscience , - conscience , my good sires , That makes me now tell truth . " However , at ...
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... turn to read the second time , and was then called a " double reader . " Practice is evidently of authority , for the clerk issues to him a marriage license in blank . To Compass , who asks him how to recover his wife's portion ...
... turn to read the second time , and was then called a " double reader . " Practice is evidently of authority , for the clerk issues to him a marriage license in blank . To Compass , who asks him how to recover his wife's portion ...
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Էջ 158 - I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Էջ 163 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here * The Attorney General. they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Էջ 239 - So Tongue, was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Էջ 250 - Here Hickey reclines, a most blunt, pleasant creature, And slander itself must allow him good nature : He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser ? I answer, no, no, for he always was wiser...
Էջ 105 - On such an afternoon, some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be — as here they are — mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee-deep in technicalities, running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words, and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might.
Էջ 160 - It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong...
Էջ 112 - The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous make the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Էջ 297 - Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well, There take (says Justice), take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on fools like you : 'Twas a fat oyster — Live in peace — Adieu.
Էջ 135 - They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws ; and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge...
Էջ 293 - Christ is the king's Attorney, Who pleads for all without degrees, And he hath angels, but no fees. And when the grand twelve-million jury Of our sins, with direful fury, Against our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live.