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  • A moment later, Judge Judy was speaking over both the defendant and the plaintiff, just to get them to shut up, which seemed to be the predictable, recurring theme of the show.†   (source)
  • The defendant was Gregory Madison, the plaintiff the People of the State of New York.†   (source)
  • The only party present in support of Shay—and my first witness—was Father Michael, seated just behind the plaintiff's table.†   (source)
  • The plaintiff, a man named Cleon Hubbard, filed a lawsuit against the defendant.†   (source)
  • As counsel for Field, the plaintiff, Adams felt confident in his understanding of the principles of law involved, but worried that the writ he prepared was "unclerklike" and thus he would fail.†   (source)
  • It was pure plaintiff-attorney paradise and it felt odd to Robert to be looking at it from the other end.†   (source)
  • William Raspberry of the Washington Post approvingly quoted one of the plaintiff lawyers: "When a 5-year-old has his language system treated as inferior from his first day of school, the resulting psychological damage is inevitable.†   (source)
  • Then let's have the plaintiff's allegations.†   (source)
  • If this was not true, the judicial authority of the Union could be avoided by every plaintiff or prosecutor.†   (source)
  • "If don't seem regular to me," he said, "to have the plaintiff acting as defense attorney.†   (source)
  • The blind croupier produced a plaintiff who suddenly appeared and sued the bright young attorney for barratry.†   (source)
  • The Cadi took his seat gravely, and an officer introduced first Ali Cogia, the plaintiff, and then the merchant who was the defendant.   (source)
  • If I stayed in bed when the verdict was read, did that mean the plaintiff lost by default?†   (source)
  • "Was you coached by the plaintiff?" inquired Bellagrog.†   (source)
  • She combed the court dockets, looking for plaintiffs and defendants, winners and losers.†   (source)
  • The plaintiff's attorney immediately objected while the crowd burst into excited chatter.†   (source)
  • "The court appreciates your offer," the judge said, "but I doubt there's any precedent for a defendant acting as counsel for the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • Finally, he said, "Obviously, the mental condition of the chief plaintiff, Mr. Cook, must also come under consideration.†   (source)
  • At a 1997 restaurant industry "summit" on violence, executives representing the major chains argued that OSHA guidelines could be used by plaintiffs in lawsuits stemming from a crime, that guidelines were completely unnecessary, and that there was no need to supply the government with "potentially damaging" robbery statistics.†   (source)
  • The arguments are fairly clear, and the plaintiffs have failed to establish either abuse of the property in question or mismanagement of its assets.†   (source)
  • The judge, the prosecutor, and the plaintiffs all expressed the hope that Joe would settle the matter before it came to that.†   (source)
  • Then one by one the plaintiffs took the stand and described the work they had done or the goods they had supplied and how, no matter how often they tried to cash Joe's checks, they always bounced.†   (source)
  • The lawyer for the plaintiffs stood up.†   (source)
  • They nodded at Buckley, who was too busy to speak, and were amused by his takeover of the plaintiff's table.†   (source)
  • "In fact," Maggie said, "he's the plaintiff in this case who was sitting beside me at that table, isn't that correct?"†   (source)
  • I wondered whether remaking him in the image of a viable plaintiff said more about who he was willing to be, or whom I had become.†   (source)
  • Amburgh managed a terse "Thanks" as he scampered from the plaintiff's table and hurried down the aisle.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," continued Bellagrog, "the defense moves to dismiss the case, as the plaintiff can't prove that this particular boy was ever present at the scene of the alleged crime!†   (source)
  • The table on the right was the home of the prosecutor in a criminal case—his old turf—or the plaintiff in a civil case.†   (source)
  • From the plaintiff's table, Jesper Rasmussen was eyeing the absurd thing, but quickly looked away, once the haglings had taken notice and returned his stare from behind their leather muzzles.†   (source)
  • Maggie's hand slipped back through the slatted rails that separated the first row of the gallery from the plaintiff's table.†   (source)
  • Jake had arrived early and staked his claim to the plaintiff's table, where he now sat with Russell Amburgh, who had informed Jake that morning that he wanted out.†   (source)
  • At the plaintiff's table, I closed my eyes—at the very least, Shay had surely just lost the case for himself; at the most, I was going to wind up with a cross being burned on my lawn.†   (source)
  • If possible, they would commandeer the table used by the prosecution and plaintiff, the one closest to the jury, and assert themselves as the true voice of the proponents of the will.†   (source)
  • Most plaintiffs' lawyers took one-third of a settlement, 40 percent of a jury verdict, and half where the case was appealed.†   (source)
  • You will testify for the plaintiff, of course?†   (source)
  • Ellsworth Monkton Toohey was the first witness called by the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • On the fourth day of the trial the plaintiff's attorney called his last witness.†   (source)
  • In the next two days a succession of witnesses testified for the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • The attorney bowed to the bench and said: "The plaintiff rests."†   (source)
  • In the cage we rose and dropped, rubbing elbows with bigshots and operators, commissioners, grabbers, heelers, tipsters, hoodlums, wolves, fixers, plaintiffs, flatfeet, men in Western hats and women in lizard shoes and fur coats, hothouse and arctic drafts mixed up, brute things and airs of sex, evidence of heavy feeding and systematic shaving, of calculations, grief, not-caring, and hopes of tremendous millions in concrete to be poured or whole Mississippis of bootleg whisky and beer.†   (source)
  • I will testify for the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • The plaintiff's attorney stated his case in a simple opening address; it was true, he admitted, that Hopton Stoddard had given Roark full freedom to design and build the Temple; the point was, however, that Mr. Stoddard had clearly specified and expected a temple; the building in question could not be considered a temple by any known standards; as the plaintiff proposed to prove with the help of the best authorities in the field.†   (source)
  • "You admit attacking the plaintiff?" he asked.†   (source)
  • He turned to the plaintiff, inquiring, "Is there any truth in this story, Mr. Connor?"†   (source)
  • He's eating the plaintiff, he's eating the suits, he eats, he chews, he crams, he fills himself.†   (source)
  • The plaintiff, who had been beaten,—an obese chocolate-coloured man with shaved head, one fat breast bare and a bright yellow caste-mark above the bridge of his nose,—sat in pompous immobility: only his eyes glittered, rolling in the gloom, and the nostrils dilated and collapsed violently as he breathed.†   (source)
  • Beneath it she read the words: "The Hon. Mrs Brand, plaintiff in the remarkable divorce case reported on p. 8."†   (source)
  • He had been given ninety-five cents' change, and had demanded ninety-nine dollars more, and before the plaintiff could even answer had hurled the glass at him and then attacked him with a bottle of bitters, and nearly wrecked the place.†   (source)
  • 'My daughter's case, sir,' said he, 'at the time when, in vindication of her outraged feelings and her sex, she became the plaintiff in Rugg and Bawkins.†   (source)
  • The little plaintiff or defendant who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world.†   (source)
  • He called himself for the plaintiff, there was no getting over his evidence, the counsel for the defendant threw up his brief, and the jury did not even turn to consider.†   (source)
  • Wakem's conscience was not uneasy because he had used a few tricks against the miller; why should he hate that unsuccessful plaintiff, that pitiable, furious bull entangled in the meshes of a net?†   (source)
  • But if a legal formality be required, which, however advantageous to the community, is of small importance to individuals, plaintiffs may be less easily found; and thus, by a tacit agreement, the laws may fall into disuse.†   (source)
  • Ultimately the defendants (the crew of another ship) came up with the whale, struck, killed, seized, and finally appropriated it before the very eyes of the plaintiffs.†   (source)
  • Wherefore the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line, harpoons, and boat.†   (source)
  • Whether "Tom" is the popular representative of the original plaintiff or defendant in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, or whether Tom lived here when the suit had laid the street waste, all alone, until other settlers came to join him, or whether the traditional title is a comprehensive name for a retreat cut off from honest company and put out of the pale of hope, perhaps nobody knows.†   (source)
  • It may readily be imagined that in such a case it might happen that no one cared to prosecute; hence the law adds that all the citizens may indict offences of this kind, and that half of the fine shall belong to the plaintiff.†   (source)
  • 'He is not unlike what my daughter was, sir, when we began the Breach of Promise action of Rugg and Bawkins, in which she was Plaintiff,' said Mr Rugg.†   (source)
  • And when those defendants were remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs' teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done, he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure.†   (source)
  • My daughter (but a woman, you'll say: yet still with a feeling for these things, and even with some little personal experience, as the plaintiff in Rugg and Bawkins) was expressing her great surprise; her great surprise.†   (source)
  • Jostling against clerks going to post the day's letters, and against counsel and attorneys going home to dinner, and against plaintiffs and defendants and suitors of all sorts, and against the general crowd, in whose way the forensic wisdom of ages has interposed a million of obstacles to the transaction of the commonest business of life; diving through law and equity, and through that kindred mystery, the street mud, which is made of nobody knows what and collects about us nobody…†   (source)
  • These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned Judge in set terms decided, to wit,—That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish)…†   (source)
  • Plornish, having been made acquainted with the cause of action from the Defendant's own mouth, gave Arthur to understand that the Plaintiff was a 'Chaunter'—meaning, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses—and that he (Plornish) considered that ten shillings in the pound 'would settle handsome,' and that more would be a waste of money.†   (source)
  • This gentleman, happening also to be the Plaintiff in the Tip case, referred Mr Plornish to his solicitor, and declined to treat with Mr Plornish, or even to endure his presence in the yard, unless he appeared there with a twenty-pound note: in which case only, the gentleman would augur from appearances that he meant business, and might be induced to talk to him.†   (source)
  • Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself.†   (source)
  • He removed the final /f/ from /bailiff/, /mastiff/, /plaintiff/ and /pontiff/, but left it in /distaff/.†   (source)
  • Observing this, and how, without another word, he made off, and observing too the resignation of the plaintiff, Sancho buried his head in his bosom and remained for a short space in deep thought, with the forefinger of his right hand on his brow and nose; then he raised his head and bade them call back the old man with the stick, for he had already taken his departure.†   (source)
  • Pr'ythee, be content: This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee: But, when we know the grounds and authors of it, Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge Of thine own cause.†   (source)
  • …take the advantage, and carry it away from them both;" which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to undeceive him; since the decision he mentioned was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plaintiff and defendant there lost nothing beside the stone they contended for: whereas our courts of equity would never have dismissed the cause, while either of them had any thing left.†   (source)
  • Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter.†   (source)
  • Either this must be the case, or the local courts must be excluded from a concurrent jurisdiction in matters of national concern, else the judiciary authority of the Union may be eluded at the pleasure of every plaintiff or prosecutor.†   (source)
  • In this case, therefore, I conceive the plaintiff must be non-suited; and I should disadvise the bringing any such action.†   (source)
  • …he could, and then said he was in the utmost haste to attend counsel at Mr Western's lodgings; but, however, thought it his duty to call and acquaint him with the opinion of counsel upon the case which he had before told him, which was that the conversion of the moneys in that case could not be questioned in a criminal cause, but that an action of trover might be brought, and if it appeared to the jury to be the moneys of plaintiff, that plaintiff would recover a verdict for the value.†   (source)
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