"Pleader" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman^, judge &c 967. bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers; officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader. solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor^; writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil^. legal beagle [Coll.]. [persons accessory to lawyers] legal secretary; legal ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... fear, said he, as favourably as you deserve; for you have too powerful a pleader within me. And ...
— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson
... beyond the weight attached to his pleadings as a lawyer. As an advocate, Consul though he was, he continued to perform his work; from whence we learn that no State dignity was so high as to exempt an established pleader from the duty of defending his friends. Hortensius, when Consul elect, had undertaken to defend Verres. Cicero defended Murena when he was Consul. He defended C. Calpurnius Piso also, who was accused, as were so many, of ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope
... But these interpreters could neither enact nor execute the laws of the republic; and the judges might disregard the authority of the Scaevolas themselves, which was often overthrown by the eloquence or sophistry of an ingenious pleader. [60] Augustus and Tiberius were the first to adopt, as a useful engine, the science of the civilians; and their servile labors accommodated the old system to the spirit and views of despotism. Under ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon
... and finding it to be a lion? We thought we had released and were bringing over a simple, harmless, inoffensive, heart-broken emigrant, who would be glad to settle, and find rest, and behold, we have upon our hands a world-disturbing propagandist, a loud pleader for justice and freedom, who does not want to settle, but to fight; who will not rest upon his country's wrongs, nor let anybody else if he can help it; who does not care for processions nor entertainments, ...
— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey
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