consthructive

Updated: May 14, 2025

'As you plase, Sir, replied the attorney; 'you're tumblin' yourself and your friend into a nice predicament as good a consthructive ousther, vi et armis, as my client could possibly desire. Av coorse, Sir, we'll seek compensation in the regular way for this violent threspass; and we have you criminally, you'll obsarve, no less than civilly.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard