Legal expenses in the case of Irish suits will be little more than in Scottish suits.
His legal learning was far from profound, his speeches were more ponderous than powerful, and his attacks were bludgeon blows rather than home thrusts.
Thus, in order to strengthen the Barrier System against France, Pitt was prepared to sacrifice legal rights to expediency, while Grenville upheld the claims of justice.
Even so the measure met with opposition from the legal profession; and on 13th May he wrote to Pitt expressing deep concern at the opposition of the Solicitor-General.
Two other legal authorities unequivocally declared for this view of the case.
At the close of the year Castlereagh came from Dublin to London to confer with Ministers on legal and other details connected with the proposal of Catholic Emancipation.
He reckoned house rent at double that sum, and the earnings of the legal profession at one half of it.
Finally he expressed the hope that, under his plan, the legal expenses of enclosure would on an average be £5 per parish as against the present burden of £500.
When presented on 16th May, it contained a statement of all the threatening symptoms of the time, and so far ignored the legal efforts of those Societies as to form a very alarming diagnosis.
In the middle of December the Chancellor drew up an able and very detailed Memorandum on the legal aspects of the case.
Unfortunately, Muir left the country, though in no clandestine manner, while legal proceedings were pending.
In July he besought Pitt to make the Bill a Cabinet measure in order to "prevent either legal or ecclesiastical prejudices operating against it.
He desired to vivify the Union with Ireland by a concession which would come with all the more graciousness because he had not introduced it into the legal contract of marriage.
The legal attainments of the Irish Chancellor, the Earl of Clare, and the parliamentary and commercial connections of the Speaker, Foster, entitle their opinions to great weight.
Fortunately on 27th February the Directors published a reassuring statement, and the Lord Mayor presided at an influential meeting on the same day, which decided to accept banknotes as legal tender for any amount.
Sidenote: The Moot] In the fall of the year 1770, a club was formed by the principal lawyers of the city of New York, for the discussion of legal questions, which they called The Moot.
Rob Roy's landed property was attached by the regular form of legal procedure, and his stock and furniture made the subject of arrest and sale.
Commissioners of supply were named in Parliament by the proscribed title of MacGregor, and decrees of courts of justice were pronounced, and legaldeeds entered into, under the same appellative.
It was my misfortune, at the time the Rebellion broke out, to be liable to legal diligence and caption, at the Duke of Montrose's instance, for debt alledged due to him.
The Duke of Montrose, who conceived himself deceived and cheated by MacGregor's conduct, employed legal means to recover the money lent to him.
I was at your age when my father turned me out of doors, and settled my legal inheritance on my younger brother.
Why do not the Catholics turn up their nose at Paul, as they do at Luther, when Paul calls all his legal righteousness "dung" (Phil.
Christ with His gracious summons told them, in effect: You must forget the Law and the ordinances of your elders and your miserable works of legal service.
Yea, he reprobates their legal service when he says: "As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse" (chap.
The Protestant princes would have betrayed a trust which citizens rightly repose in their government, if they had not taken steps to afford the Protestant churches in their domains every legal protection.
What was their inquisitorial court but the anteroom to holy butchers' shambles, the legal vestibule to murder that had been sanctioned by the Popes?
How contemptuous does it not sound to hear him call the legal ordinances which the Galatians were observing "beggarly elements" (chap.
Now, there is a great difference between a legal right and a dispensation, or something that is tolerated or permitted.
The very opposite is true: it was because he did not approve of any kind of sexual intercourse, but because he desired to obtain some kind of a legal character for that relation, that he gave the advice to which we have referred.
There was no organic connexion between the religion of legal observance and the future hope.
The conception of righteousness which the writer applies is, in spite of its legal aspect, of an ethical, prophetic character.
He refuses to divide the Galilaean ministry of Jesus into a period of success and a period of failure and gradual falling off of adherents, divided by the controversy about legal purity in Mark vii.
But the really important point is not whether the condemnation was legal or not; it is the significant fact that the High Priest called no witnesses.
What memory could stand such a burden, or what might legal cavil not find therein?
From every point of view this is the greatest legal decision of the century.
As she is a taxpayer, of sound mind, and of legal age, I see no reason why she should not exercise this right of citizenship.
The wife is regarded by all legal authorities as a feme covert, placed wholly sub potestate viri.
The tears and complaints of the women who came to my father for legal advice touched my heart and early drew my attention to the injustice and cruelty of the laws.
A decision had just been rendered by the United States Supreme Court declaring the first wife and her children the only legal heirs.
Judge McKeon had informed me of the recent decisions and the legal aspects of the questions, which he urged me to present to them fully and frankly, as no one had had such an opportunity before to speak to Mormon women alone.
Interest was at the first a legal term, used in law only, and it has always been applied to that premium or measure of increase that is permitted or made legal by civil law.
The basis of legal interest rates is the amount of benefit the borrower gains by the loan.
If in another state his opportunities are so limited that, strive as he may, he can make little gain, the legal rates will be low.
Incorporated property, however, has eliminated from it the ethical and moral responsibility of personality and is regarded as possessed only of economic and physical qualities and restrained only by legal statutes.
Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
We must not permit our views of divine and economic truth to be perverted by this modern division of increase into legal and illegal.
The penalty of taking more than this legal interest was punished with more severity than theft.
The legal rates greatly vary and are changed from time to time in the states themselves.
Again, the year of Jubilee was a kind of legal time limit to debts.
The interest exacted by the princes and nobles was no doubt so extortionate that it could be called usury in the modern legal sense.
Then under Sylla the legal rate is made three per cent.
The trade in money was left, like the trade in every thing else, without legal restraint.
His distaste for his residence in Ireland could not but have been aggravated by his recentlegal defeat.
But when I mentioned to my new friend, whose name was Jackway, my claim to the whole estate he assured me that Rucker was the legal owner of his share in it--I forget how much.
Did he have any legal right to her control and custody?
Creede called, when I told him of it years afterward, "a legal fiction which for purposes of pleading was incontrovertible.
Creede said afterward that the thing was a perfectly good legal document, though badly spelled.
In the golden future of Iowa," he said, "you will occasionally want legal advice.
I wrote this, with some other legal expressions in my note-book.
Vandemark, out of the courts; and in addition to my prospective legal services, I can wield the goad-stick and manipulate the blacksnake.
What tie binds a man and woman together--that formula of license pronounced by the priest, which the law has recognized as a 'legal bond'?
But is she willing to risk the shame of divorce or legal offence?
In vain Lord Marchdale represented to his son the folly of his conduct, and the necessity of remaining at home to meet several persons who were appointed to assemble at Henbury on legal business.
The next is, to preserve the magistracy and legalauthorities in honor, respect, and force.
He endeavors to find deviations from legal government, and then instructs his counsel to say that I have asserted there is no such thing as arbitrary power in the East.
They have their legal rights only, and these do not imply any such thing as sovereign power.
They entered into a compact to confirm each other's acts, and to support each other in whatever they did: thus attempting to give their separate acts a legal form.
It is no more than such a legal act of sovereignty as his behavior justified, and as I was justified in by the intentions of my predecessors.
No legal power is interposed between them and evidence; they are themselves by law fully and exclusively equal to it.
Some weeks passed, the executors professed to be searching for the legal proofs of Colonel Brand's death.
In vain she pleaded that he would take her with him, and own her boy as his legal heir.
The Pedgifts, father and son, are free agents, and they are admirably true to their instincts of upright, astute lawyers, who love best to employ their legal shrewdness in a good cause.
Long before the Prayer-book was restored to its legal position.
It was therefore necessary to put the revised Book in the legal position occupied by the unrevised Book.
Stephens, part of the statute law of the land; and all the legal and equitable principles of construction which apply to statutes in general, equally apply to the Book of Common Prayer.
Our heroine, being at once ardent and philosophical, put the lex talionis into force by falling in love with one of her mother's lodgers, a sprig of the legal profession.
Rose was evidently in good command of herself as she showed the girls a legal document of some sort, though probably a forgery, as all the three thought.
An immense legal envelope came from somewhere, Auntie said, and that seemed to upset Rose a good deal; and then a letter came, all scribbled on and forwarded, and I wondered if it could be from Ramon.
I am no lawyer," I said; "I do not know whether I can draw up the agreement in legal form.
Everything appears to be stated in proper legal form, and I have no doubt that it sets my last Will completely aside.
What's worse, he's evidently stumbled on to a bit of legal information which makes it safer for us to disappear until we can get the links of our chain forged.
She would be ready to grasp at a straw, and, once persuaded as to her identity and legal rights, could henceforth be trusted implicitly as an ally.
Then his footsteps slackened and he felt half sick as he remembered that the big-game season was open and he had no legal right to interfere.
We have taken every legal precaution and necessary physical step to insure an absolutely safe and profitable investment.
Nevertheless, the legal marriages were few among them.
Now whatever society has decided is legal and right for human beings, you must not forget that God also has made rules, and that those rules must first be obeyed, before the rules of man can be regarded as perfect.
I can imagine no more dreadful destiny than to be tied to a senile old man by a legal ceremony, even were I given his millions in payment.
I believe in it as a legal fence, but it possesses no value as a religious motive.
To take a third of a man's love, and to share his physical and mental and spiritual comradeship with two other wives, is far more immoral, to my thinking, than to take the whole of a man without legal authority.
Your father loved her, and they were in God's sight more truly husband and wife than the soulless and loveless ceremony of the law made her and her legal husband afterward.
The wisely reared and well-balanced woman will keep herself in womanly reserve for her legal husband.
Her fall was through love--yours through a legal ceremony.
Any woman who asks a man to give up his name and take hers (unless some great legal matter which involves the property rights of others hangs on so doing) asks him to make himself ridiculous in the eyes of the world.
Your whole estate will be the land of les Rouxey, and the small share left to you after your father's legal debts are settled, if, indeed, your mother should consent to forego her claims on les Rouxey.
He thus gained as clients four of the chief merchants of the place, who discerned in him so much good sense and sound legal purview that they placed their claims in his hands.
If you wish to secure the joint possession of the Dent de Vilard, you must act with decision, and get a legal opinion which will protect you against this enterprising Chantonnit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
