But its happiest effect was, that not another lawsuit took place throughout the whole of his administration--and the office of constable fell into such decay, that there was not one of those losel scouts known in the province for many years.
Now the said Gazonal was intending to go to Paris to prosecute a lawsuit which the prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees had arbitrarily removed from the usual jurisdiction, transferring it to that of the Council of State.
Now," continued Leon, speaking to Bixiou, "if we are going to the Chamber to help him with his lawsuit let us take the longest way round.
What makes your lawsuit so hard to win, is that you have right on your side, and on that of the prefect there are (so you suppose) secret motives.
You have seen the ballet, and you'll now see it defiling past you in its every-day clothes, without knowing that the face of yourlawsuit depends on a pair of those legs.
He had lost heavily of late both in grain and cheese, and the lawsuit with Gibson had crippled him.
I see that Gourlay has lost his final appeal in that lawsuit of his," said the Templar.
You can just come down to Dakin's store and settle to-day or to-morrow, or there will be a lawsuit begun against both of you, or whoever is responsible for you.
In the autumn of 1871, it became necessary for me to proceed to Granada to empower a lawyer there to act for us in a lawsuit in which we were engaged.
Barriere, intendant of the province, and the sieur Vialet, treasurer of France, desiring them to bring the lawsuit to an end.
The first example which Urbain gave of this inflexibility was in 1620, when he gained a lawsuit against a priest named Meunier.
The other ladies carried their appeal to the high court, pleading that they were not parties to the lawsuit in the Tournelle.
During a lawsuit he advises about the case (jurisconsult) or carries on for clients the prosecution or defense in a court of justice.
You see at the present moment what is the state of our affairs, and the lawsuit in which you are involved is proceeded with only for want of alliances.
Thus the lawsuit with which the duke was threatened affected him in every part of his fortune.
In this officer Bourbon saw nothing more or less than a spy, and in the king's promises nothing but vain words dependent as they were upon the issue of a lawsuit which still remained an incubus upon him.
A lawsuit is not regarded in China as a thing to be settled simply on its merits.
So she had instituted a regular system by which her adherents were defended in any lawsuit or attack.
He boldly asserted that non-interference in a lawsuit would be simply misunderstood by the Chinese.
The best analogy to a Chinese lawsuit is an English election.
I Leonardo was threatened with a lawsuit touching his vineyard at Fiesole, a slice of which was coveted by the neighbouring contadino.
Do you come on business, or have you a lawsuit going on before the court?
A lawsuit is a very bad thing, it costs so much money; a solicitor is a thief, and a barrister a rogue.
A curiously complicated lawsuit brought into the King’s Court in 1220 relates how a certain man had custody of the children of Nicholas de Malesmeins.
This famous lawsuit arose in the following way: An old law required each church in Virginia to pay its minister sixteen thousand pounds of tobacco as his yearly salary.
The King of England set this law aside and then the “parsons,” as the clergy were called, brought a lawsuit to collect the unpaid parts of their salaries.
But if the reader fancies the Lawsuit was at last out in this way, he will be a simple reader!
Nor in this state was the Lawsuit by any means ended,--as we shall wearisomely see, in times long following that.
Never been arrested and never had a lawsuit in my life.
Towards the end of March, 1427, they sent him to Vaucouleurs as their authorised proxy in a lawsuit they were conducting before Robert de Baudricourt.
Miss Penge was now a great heiress, having had her lawsuit respecting certain shares in a Welsh coal-mine settled since we last saw her.
For eight or ten years thelawsuit was continued, and much money was expended.
His sense of justice and his consideration are shown in the fact that in all the long years that the Oliver Plow Works existed, it has never once been defendant in a lawsuit in its home county, damage or otherwise.
The lawsuit would have been a long and tedious one, but happily it was not to be.
The barytone had a big lawsuit on his hands about an estate; his lawyers were two stars of obscurity from a small village; and at times he became so vexed at the cuts of his opponents that he lost his voice.
Ever since a certain interpellation in the Reichstag and a long lawsuit in which the Prudentia became involved, and which was decided in favour of its opponents, the standing of the company had suffered irreparably.
But even just ground of fear, because of which the luckless girl was moved to flee, has come to light, namely, the lawsuit brought by her father against the Accused for the nullification of the dowry contract.
The other lawsuit which Francesca Pompilia made pretence of bringing against Count Guido, for divorce, might be omitted.
The Honourable Giovanni Maria Serbucci, Procurator and Manager of thelawsuit brought by the former Guido Franceschini.
Pietro, moreover, had long ago broken off the lawsuit brought as regards the pretended birth and the revocation of the dowry contract, and so this complicity cannot be made to seem the sole provoking cause, which would exclude causa litis.
Giovanni Maria Serbucci, as Procurator and Manager of the lawsuit brought by the former Guido Franceschini as principal on the other side.
According to what I heard in the neighborhood, before I came into his service, you are the daughter of a poor gentleman who came to Paris to follow a lawsuit about ten years ago.
A neighbouring abbey was supposed to have turned their waters for its benefit into other channels, and a lawsuit was commenced upon this supposition.
Bleton was applied to: he discovered at once the new course of the waters in question; his discovery was ascertained; and the lawsuit terminated.
The result was thelawsuit Panyoki versus Gregorics, which furnished the neighborhood with gossip for ten years.
