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  • Williams, District Attorney of this Court, be requested in behalf of the meeting to present these proceedings to the Circuit Court, and respectfully to ask that they may be entered on the records.

  • The persons here holding two lots under a conveyance made by you, as the attorney of Daniel M.

  • When the prosecuting attorney asked her to continue, she remained silent; her eyes rolled and her whole body shook convulsively.

  • Soon she came in, bright, smiling and cordially greeted the rising young attorney who had manifested so much interest in Stella's hosiery.

  • The principal attorney for the guardian asks the Court for a postponement of two weeks.

  • In San Francisco, Philip Hardin, in presence of Valois' wife and the padre, receives his powers of attorney and final directions.

  • The Jews, or their attorney Grund, cited the fact that they were "classed with dishonorable persons, outlaws, and serfs.

  • He was the first Jewish attorney in France.

  • This entreaty was drawn up "in the name of the Jews of Germany," by state attorney Christopher Grund.

  • His first work as a jurist attracted attention, and he tried to become an attorney in his native town, but was rejected.

  • The accused Jew was acquitted, and a rumor, referred to by the state attorney himself, charged two Christians from Duesseldorf with having drummed these horrible accusations into the children's heads.

  • It was then that word reached the ear of the prosecuting attorney of the only testimony that could establish a motive and make the crime a hanging offence, and Court was adjourned for a day, while he sent for the witness who could give it.

  • I have sent my attorney to assist you; in the meantime let us hope for better days.

  • Shortly after the wedding it transpired that the attorney at Driffield had been cheating his client, and instead of using the hard-earned money of William Swan to gain his estates, he had spent it in dissipation, and was a ruined man.

  • I thank the attorney for the government for that admission, may it please the court," said Knights, rising, with a sarcastic glance at Stearns.

  • Footnote 23: Among the few drawings executed by "Phiz" for Punch, there is a representation of an orthodox pettifogging attorney perched upon a stool, whose portrait is that of the very Squeers.

  • But to the district attorney they did not seem to be a mere poetic aspiration, nor a catch phrase with which to adorn his speech; they voiced a real idea, still pulsating with passionate truth.

  • Finally the district attorney ceased to speak, and the judge looked at his watch.

  • The raw district attorney had done his worst, and judging from Mr. Brinkerhoff's amiable smile, it was not very bad.

  • John, is it true what the judge said, what the district attorney said, about--the officials getting money from those coal companies?

  • Another paper had the item: "This time the district attorney under direction from Washington will not be content to convict a few rate clerks or other underlings.

  • The thick-set district attorney frequently scraped his throat and repeated the phrase, "if it please your honor.

  • The district attorney is a Southerner, and he's going to spread himself when he makes his plea, you can believe.

  • A very clever but less judicious work was the 'Adventures of an Attorney in search of Practice,' first published in 1839, which gave or was supposed to give indiscreet revelations as to some of his clients.

  • On Thursday he had another interview with the attorney and a thorough discussion of the whole matter with Mr. Matthews.

  • His attorney wrote a pamphlet disputing the sufficiency of the evidence.

  • He saw the attorney on Monday, the 8th, and passed that evening and the next morning in writing his opinion to the Home Secretary (Mr. H.

  • Other representatives of the law are Albertus Brown, who served as a judge in Toledo, Ohio, for two days by appointment of the mayor, and Ferdinand Morton, Assistant District Attorney of New York City.

  • Bonaparte, Attorney General of the United States, under President Roosevelt.

  • The culmination of this discussion was an opinion of the Crown-Attorney and Solicitor-General of England, given in 1729 in response to an appeal from the colonists, to the effect that baptism in no way changed the status of the slave.

  • He used other facts collected by Attorney Msimang of Johannesburg.

  • O'Connell stood up, and told the attorney to make no admission.

  • At all events the rascally attorney had received a bigger bribe from the other side, and now at this solemn moment and in face of the whole county the villain came forward and arrested Sir Thomas.

  • Vatinelle and spoken favorably of the sometime attorney at Mantes.

  • Well, I know the risks myself, you see; poor and obscure little attorney as I am, the law has been the ruin of me.

  • I took this paper to a good man, an attorney who knows this Fraisier, and he says that you ought to punish such wickedness; you ought to let them summon you and leave them to get out of it.

  • They combined against him to such purpose, that they forced him to sell his connection by misrepresenting something that he had done; the attorney for the crown interfered, he belonged to the place, and sided with his fellow-townsmen.

  • We have loaded him with benefits, and he played his game so well, that he said Cecile was his heir before the Keeper of the Seals and the Attorney General and the Home Secretary!

  • After dinner, you and I and the notary and attorney will have the little consultation for which you ask, and I will give you full powers.

  • To-morrow she must give him the power of attorney to enable him to act for the heirs.

  • With a sweeping courtesy, the stalwart woman flung open the door of a private office, which looked upon the street, and discovered the ex-attorney of Mantes.

  • Only, you must be so good as to have your notary and your attorney here when I shall need them; you must give me a power of attorney to act for M.

  • The petty attorney was a knife to her hand.

  • But an attorney ought to be sharp, and it is not to be understood that Mr. Battle descended to sharp practice.

  • We shall see that when the will is read," said the attorney with a smile.

  • The prisoner was put in the dock, when the Commonwealth's attorney and Mr. Pate announced themselves ready for trial, and were each furnished with a list of the jurors in attendance.

  • An attorney who, for a moderate commission, rides over the country collecting money for his clients.

  • Rendered frantic by the ridicule of his merciless adversary, his attorney had rushed wildly from the scene of his discomfiture, mounted his horse, and galloped away, and poor Rump was left inops consilii.

  • Extraordinary as it may seem, the carpenter usually came off victorious, and the learned attorney frequently left the court and went home deeply dejected by the humiliation of defeat.

  • I was so rebuffed by this overture that I never inquired either for her or her attorney afterwards.

  • I have constituted myself the prosecuting attorney for the lamp-post.

  • The King's Attorney and the CurĂ© de Saint-Etienne-du-Mont are marching at their head.

  • The attorney could scarcely believe his eyes, and he exclaimed to the magistrate with a chuckle-- "Who would have thought of this!

  • But the attorney was not born to be drowned; at least, at this period of his career.

  • The attorney reflected a little, and then observed to Holden, "It is evident some unfair practices have been resorted to with our respected friend, to extort a promise from him which he cannot violate.

  • Not liking his looks, the little attorney would have taken to his heels, but finding escape impossible, he called upon Baggiley to protect him.

  • The attorney was clad in a riding-dress, which he had exchanged for his wet habiliments, and was accompanied by Sir Ralph Assheton and Master Roger Nowell.

  • When brought forth he had allowed Potts to mount him quietly enough; but no sooner was the attorney comfortably in possession, than he was served with a notice of ejectment.

  • The attorney regretted abandoning his seat; for Flint indulged him with another exhibition somewhat similar to the first, though of less duration, for a vigorous application of the hunting-whip brought the wrong-headed little animal to reason.

  • This worthy was an attorney from London, who had officiated as clerk of the court at the assizes at Lancaster, where his quickness had so much pleased Roger Nowell, that he sent for him to Read to manage this particular business.

  • The attorney concluded, and justly, that they were afraid of incurring the displeasure of the vindictive old hag by an open expression of interest in his fate.

  • In compliance with his request, a heavy hunting-whip was handed to Potts, and, armed with this formidable weapon, the little attorney quite longed for an opportunity of effacing his disgrace.

  • I've known him since he was a fresh junior senator, and I was just attorney for the House Committee for Legislative Oversight.

  • Fisher was Attorney General for his state at the time.

  • Then go on and suppose that the prosecuting attorney had sense enough to see that Bossard had been framed.

  • I've seen his record as State Attorney General and as Lieutenant Governor.

  • When the case came to trial in the State Supreme Court, Matt Fisher told the Court that it was apparent that Mayor Bossard was the victim of the local district attorney and the chief of police of Waynesville.

  • The District Attorney might make it lighter, if he helps.

  • I went down to the District Attorney with a full statement of the facts, leaving nothing unbared.

  • He has put the matter before the District Attorney and is going to sail for Far Cathay until they round up the gang.

  • There is a prosecuting attorney for the State; I would have also a defending attorney for the accused, that justice might be done all round.

  • Please do not think when your attorney asks you for counsel's fees that you are hiring him by that golden nexus of guineas.

  • But the ashes of the father do not mingle with theirs; nor, from that night forward, did the attorney ever gain the remotest clue to the subsequent history of his queer client.

  • The attorney cast a still more anxious look at the packet; and his visitor, untying the string that bound it, disclosed a quantity of promissory notes, with copies of deeds, and other documents.

  • The attorney bowed obsequiously, and glanced at a large packet which the gentleman carried in his hand.


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