But in the absence of Audley Egerton, the election looked extremely ugly, and Captain Dashmore gained ground hourly, when the Lansmere solicitor happily bethought him of a notable proxy for the missing candidate.
The propositions moved by Pitt were warmly supported by the master of the rolls, the lord advocate of Scotland, the attorney and solicitor general, and the solicitor general to the queen.
Losely, on his side, undertook to devote the intervening hours to consultation with a solicitor to whom Mr. Rugge recommended him as to the prompt obtaining of legal powers to enforce the authority he asserted himself to possess.
And thus terminated the result of the great barrister's first instructions to his eminent solicitor to discover a lame man and a little girl.
For a solicitor to be a notorious liar and drunkard one would suppose would be a serious handicap in his profession.
She had brought a solicitorwith her to the office--think of it, David!
His wife's solicitor continues to exist, and is still a very well-known gentleman in certain extremely crooked walks of life.
The Solicitor cloisters himself in his chambers more successfully even than the Architect or the Church League, and I have never yet laid eyes on him or detected a client at his door.
Four attended, together with the Solicitor and the Agent of the estate, and the Publisher, who took the chair.
With this older group of tenants, who show their respect for a house of venerable age and traditions by staying in it, I think we are to be included and also the Solicitor of the Ground Floor Front.
Mr. Solicitor Whiting, having examined those instructions, admits to me that "the faith of the Government was thereby pledged to every officer and soldier under that call.
Of this passage Mr. Solicitor Whiting wrote to me: "I have no hesitation in saying that the faith of the Government was thereby pledged to every officer and soldier enlisted under that call.
The unfortunate decision of Mr. Solicitor Whiting, under which all our troubles arose, is indeed superseded by the reasoning of the Attorney-General.
He was a slightly pompous but simpleminded little old gentleman, very proud of his position as head clerk to Mr. Stillwood, the solicitor to whom my father was now assistant.
Richard had granted to the said Thomas Linom the office of King's Solicitor (Art.
In the Christmas holidays of 1844 Fitzjames was invited to stay with the father of his friend Beamont, who was a solicitor at Warrington.
He entered into a kind of partnership with a solicitor who was the ostensible manager of the business, and could be put forward when personal appearance was necessary.
One such centre is Halsetown, a mining settlement founded something less than a century ago by James Halse, of the old Cornwall Hals family; he was a solicitor and a mayor of St. Ives, intimately connected with the mines.
It sore grieved them to separate from the scenes of their youth; but the secret understanding with the solicitor required that sacrifice.
The solicitor employed for the appellant, attended by my informant acting as his clerk, went to the Lord Advocate's chambers in the Fishmarket Close, as I think.
I would refuse to meet a familysolicitor anywhere, and I intended to say so plainly at the first convenient opportunity.
My solicitor knows the facts of the matter, and so does Mrs. Cunningham, who brought Millicent over from India when she was only about a year old.
I have caused my solicitor in London to apply to the trustee of Captain and Miss Delaware, to ascertain their present residence.
The coach does not arrive till the afternoon; and Lord Ashborough's solicitor did not come by it to-night, for I inquired at the inn.
It is only when we are attacked in such vital organs as the solicitor or the banker that we need be uneasy.
A wound in the solicitoris a very serious thing, and many a man has died from failure of his bank's action.
The solicitor general made a bitter attack upon Franklin, accusing him of dishonor in procuring private letters clandestinely, and charging him with duplicity and wily intrigue.
Finding Wedderburne, the solicitor general, retained as counsel for Hutchinson, Franklin asked and obtained leave to have counsel also.
I am a solicitor myself, Sir," he states, and proceeds to threaten to bring the matter before Parliament.
And yet again as "my ancient master, the gentleman solicitor of East Anglia.
He clearly recognised that the Bible Society required different treatment from the Army Pay Office, or the Solicitor of the Treasury.
He writes to the Solicitor of the Treasury "as a member of the same honourable profession to which I was myself bred up," and demands whether he has not law, etc.
And she was proud of herself for having demonstrated her courage by preventing the solicitor from running away, and extraordinarily ashamed of her sentimental and brazen behaviour to the solicitor afterwards.
Mr. Foulger was the late Mr. Moze's solicitor from Chelmsford.
Accordingly, by a stroke of genius they determined that one of them should become a solicitor and the other a barrister, and then tossed up as to which should take to which trade.
I have been to your brother, and he has sent me on to you, because he says that it is not the etiquette of the profession to see a client unless a solicitor is present, so he has referred me to you.
Accordingly, they passed their respective examinations, and John took rooms with another budding solicitor in the City, while James hired chambers in Pump-court.
James, the barrister, swelled with pride when, for the first time in his career, he saw a real solicitor enter his chambers accompanied by a real client.
This motion he made, and the co-respondent was dispensed with in the approved fashion; but when he turned round the solicitor had vanished, and he never saw him more or the two guineas either.
As early as 1729 it was required by statute that any person applying for admission as attorney or solicitor should submit to examination by one of the judges, who was to test his fitness and capacity in consideration of a fee of one shilling.
Walker was quite sober--the solicitor had no doubt on that score now.
Before thesolicitor could speak, his companion said quietly: "Sir Robert Dalrymple, I believe?
By Mrs. Garth's request, soon after her departure from Elmdale, the solicitor invariably addressed her as Mrs. Ogilvey.
Then for goodness' sake get some solicitor to load you, and then go off and shoot something.
By the way, I have seen my solicitor again respecting the settlements, and the papers will be ready at any time.
The solicitor is the clever man, and he has to load the barrister before he goes off.
His last commission as a crayon solicitor had come through Mrs. Davis, two months after the demise of Blakeville's leading apothecary.
