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Now, I put the question to you, whether you can, with safety to Lady Vincent, remain here for weeks or months, either as prosecutor in the criminal trial of the smugglers or as plaintiff in a civil suit with the purchasers of Lady Vincent's servants?" "I cannot." "Then do not attempt either to punish the kidnapers or wrest the slaves from the hands of their present owners.
Vexatious litigation is checked on the part of the plaintiff also, who under our constitution is obliged to swear on oath that his action is commenced in good faith; and similar oaths have to be taken by the advocates of both parties, as is prescribed in other of our enactments. Owing to these substitutes the old action of dishonest litigation has become obsolete.
The kind of illusion in which a man is seen and heard to converse with empty air, is common to the cases of Bezuel and of Briggs, and the writer is acquainted, at first hand, with a modern example. Mrs. Crowe cites, on the authority of the late Mr. Maurice Lothian, solicitor for the plaintiff, a suit which arose out of 'hauntings, and was heard in the sheriff's court, at Edinburgh, in 1835-37.
Let us at least know whether the responsible plaintiff in this case was present or was a party to this alleged conversation." "Was Mr. Craft present?" asked Goodlaw of the witness. "No, sir; I guess not, I didn't hear 'im, any way." "Did you see him?" "No, sir; I didn't see 'im. I didn't see either of 'em." "Where were you?" "In the room nex' to the street."
Mandeville; and if you wouldn't mind leaving the thing afterward entirely in my hands ?" "I'll leave it in your hands, sir, with all the pleasure in life," said Pedgift Junior. Armadale, to-morrow morning. In the meantime here's the soup. The case now before the court is, Pleasure versus Business. I don't know what you say, sir; I say, without a moment's hesitation, Verdict for the plaintiff.
The first of these pleas was a mere formal plea, under the statute. The second raised the very issue at common law the plaintiff wished to try. The third made John Compton knit his brows with perplexity. "This is a very nasty plea," said he to Alfred: "a regular trap.
That is the substance of what was averred as to the formation of the Dorr constitution. The plaintiff next offered to prove that the constitution was adopted by a large majority of the qualified voters of the State; that officers were elected under it in April, 1842; that this new government assembled on the 3d of May; and he offered a copy of its proceedings.
The simple are exemplified by those wherein the praetor commands the defendant to abstain from desecrating consecrated ground, or from obstructing a public river or its banks; for he who demands such order is the plaintiff, and he who is attempting to do the act in question is defendant.
Proceeding upon a theory that must have seemed specious and plausible to an inexperienced and infant republic, Solon had laid it down as a principle of his code, that as all men were interested in the preservation of law, so all men might exert the privilege of the plaintiff and accuser.
'What have you there? the Registrar's clerk demands of the Plaintiff presently. She has been searching in her pocket for a snuff-box wherewith to refresh herself, and, unable to immediately discover it, has emptied the contents of the pocket on the ledge of the witness-box. Among the rest is another little account-book. 'Let me see that, demands the Judge, rather sharply, and no wonder.
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