The Calvinist ministers were expelled; Protestant books were confiscated and destroyed; the acts of Protestant lawyers and officials were declared invalid.
Both lawyers and people would have preferred only two degrees of justice; and an ordinance of May 1788 realized this desire in the main.
A more numerous class than the lawyerswas made up of the merchants, small and large.
Again, leading Whig lawyers had defended--and acquitted--the perpetrators of the Massacre.
It might be argued that all these acts were still within the charter rights, yet the Whig position was no longer so strong as on the occasions when it had caused the crownlawyers to doubt.
The lawyers had showed, too, a love of fair play; for while they pressed the Tories hard, they had also taken the lead in protesting against mob violence.
The lawyers next, like the clergymen, had supplied the Whigs much of their strength.
I wish to speak on the duties of lawyers," he said, "classing myself with the lawyers in the house of Israel.
The lawyers and those encompassing his destruction took advantage of the law on a question of venue to put the object of their venom at the mercy of men whose attitude towards him was always malignant.
Many lawyers contend for that which is against the rights of men, and I can only excuse them because of their ignorance.
The best Republican lawyersin the Senate, Trumbull, Fessenden, Grimes and Doolittle, took the view of the law in the President's case as here explained.
The President, however, who had in his Attorney-General one of the ablest lawyers of the country, understood well the constitutional limitations upon the General's powers and duties.
The first four of these men were the most noted constitutional lawyers of the country, and the fifth was one of Mr. Johnson's loyal Tennessee friends and his chief ally in the Union cause in Tennessee during the years of sorest trial.
Some of them went so far as to state it was their opinion that Uncle Pete had got this fool notion from some of the lawyers at the court-house when he was on a jury a month or so before.
Napoleon, who had undertaken to be arbiter between the father and son, thought the best way of settling the difference was to give the disputed throne to his brother Joseph, thus verifying the fable of the "Two Lawyers and the Oyster.
Aunt Fanny, in that encouraging tone lawyers sometimes use to draw out a reluctant or bashful witness.
Now, let us be honor bright with each other, and do not let the lawyers on the other side treat you as if you were twelve imbeciles.
All his lawyers leaped between him and the answer to that question.
If I wanted further proof of this, he said, he would refer me to Mr. Collis McSheen, one of the leading lawyers in the city, who had conducted the investigation.
I was beginning now to be thrown with some of the lawyers and this had led to further acquaintances, among them young Canter.
The noise of her music interfered with business--with lawyers and dentists and insurance agents.
When his son's liberty was at stake he signed blank checks, he told his lawyers to get the best counsel in the nation.
But the lawyers are above the law, and they've kept this fellow from his deserts till folks have almost forgot what it was he did.
Had to force a safe for some lawyers in Bridgeport only last week.
I shall--I am going to be one of the greatest lawyers in this country," added the rich boy, boastfully.
When the courts were in session in Boonville, a town fifteen miles distant from his home, whenever he could spare a day, he used to walk there in the morning and back at night, to hear the lawyers argue cases and make speeches.
He even tried to discourage his son by reminding him that there were already more lawyers than the country needed.
Immediately after his graduation he began to study law under his uncle, Philip Barton Key, one of the ablest lawyers of his time.
There are lawyers who play poker year after year and get regularly skinned because they have heard that some of the able lawyers of the past century used to come home at night with poker-chips in their pockets.
And yet I have seen poets who relied on the potency of their breath, and lawyers who knew more of the habits of a bobtail flush than they ever did of the statutes in such case made and provided.
Allusion has been made to what lawyers understand very well--the "conflict of laws.
Lawyers and businessmen were not so troubled about Wendell Phillips' inward beliefs as they were in the fact that he was a fool--he had flung away his chances of getting on in the world.
Law is a business, and lawyers who succeed are businessmen.
His little law business was the kind that all fledglings get--the kind that big lawyersdo not want, and so they pass it over to the boys.
If the lawyers would form a union and agree not to listen to any man's tale of woe until he placed a hundred dollars in the attorney's ginger-jar, it would be a benefit untold to humanity.
In the continual rural litigations, he had watched lawyers make their appeal to the jury; he had sat on these juries, and he knew he could do the trick better.
The array of legal talent on the side of the Church included the best lawyers in the Colony--the Randolphs and other aristocrats were there.
He then tried another expedient, and very few lawyers indeed are strong enough to do this: he would accept no case until the fee was paid in advance.
In the character of a poor person--a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
Terrestrian: It has been defined by five hundred lawyersin three volumes each.
Intellectual property lawyers have many similarities to Procrustes.
It is not something you want to leave a host of lawyers and lobbyists to decide among themselves.
Biz Markie's lawyers had asked for permission to use the sample, but the Supreme Court has made clear that seeking permission does not weigh against a defense of fair use.
The causal claim is harder to substantiate, but industry lawyers and musicians both agree that changes in the industry's understanding of the law had a major role in transforming the practice of sampling.
All this would be fine if the author wished to retain all the rights that copyright gives and grant them only individually, for pay, with lawyers in the room.
If you search for "show me works I can build on," you know you are allowed to make what copyrightlawyers call "derivative works.
Lawyers use the term "bright-line rule" to refer to a rule that is very easy to apply to the facts.
For another, Mr. Jeffers Hawley, who was once one of the Transcontinental lawyers in Denver, was sitting just behind you, with eager ears.
Two of the grain trains are in, and the Transcontinental lawyers have won the toss.
Young lawyers always want to be older than they are," laughed Marian.
Lawyers often take cases for poor clients with the understanding that they are to have part of the money if they win the case, but get no pay if they lose it.
Bellaver, letting his lawyers worry about Vernon's accusations, had already laid formal claim to that ship, based on the value of the stolen Titanite.
Scenes with the investigators, with MacDonald's family, with lawyers and reporters.
When the herring was abundant, and money was plentiful in the country, so that everybody was able to clear off incumbrances and to lay by something, the lawyers complained of bad times.
The statute which lawyersregard as establishing the rule on this last point is the 32 Hen.
It should be added that, while marriage is generally spoken of by lawyers as a contract, its complete isolation from all other contracts is invariably recognized.
It does not appear to have been Aurungzebe's intention to promulgate it as a code, but to present it to lawyers as a complete text-book.
Of Prentiss' power before a jury too much cannot be said.
It is worth the trouble certainly," he exclaimed, with a mocking laugh.
That may be, but it was owing to his friendship, to the wish to learn something further of his fate, that we are indebted for the visit of this romantic knight-errant.
Senado, the Spanish Chamber of Peers, which holds its sittings in the chapel of a suppressed convent, near the palace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawyers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
