10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATTORNEYDOM»
Discover the use of
attorneydom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
attorneydom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Glenna Whitley, Why We Love to Hate Lawyers, D Mag., May 1991, at 47, 51.
Attorneydom is an occasional variant. E.g., "They also seem less prone to the sort
of loophole chicanery and fine-print-chasing endemic to Washington
attorneydom.
2
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Whence attorneydom and attorneyism (incontempt or abuse). 1732. Pope, Moral
Essays, in. 274. Vile attornies, now an useless race. c. 1784. Johnson [Boswell,
Life, 1.385]. Johnsonobserved that ' he did notcaretospeak ill ofanyman behind ...
3
Law Times, the Journal and Record of the Law and Lawyers
... itself — " the ambition of an attorney" — is a sarcasm, may well show the
necessity of reform. The best men won't, if they can help it, enter attorneydom,
because such men have ambition, and that is what attorneydom can seldom
satisfy.
4
The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of ...
... able and learned, will not stoop to artifice — we say that the barrister who may
be so described is the degenerate creation of attorneydom. It is the attorneys who
find it for their interest and class profit to bring such practitioners into existence.
5
The Foreign And Colonial Quarterly Review
Wehave not time toaccompany the voyagers in their -eccentric course, or we
would fain relate how they touched at the Islandof Procuration(Attorneydom) and
fell in with the people of the Chicquanous (bailiffs), who got their living by being ...
6
The law magazine and law review, or, Quarterly journal of ...
... able and learned, will not stoop to artifice — we say that the barrister who may
be so described is the degenerate creation of attorneydom. It is the attorneys who
find it for their interest and class profit to bring such practitioners into existence.
7
Constructionalization and Constructional Changes
... with pejorative meaning, cf. duncedom, gangdom, a meaning which persists
even when the N itself does not have negative semantics (attorneydom) (
Marchand 1969: 264); recent examples are Blairdom (Trousdale 2008a) and
Obamadom.
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale, 2013
8
Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
Attorneydom, although considerably older (dating from 1888), is today an
occasional variant. E.g.: • “They were, it seems, not the green cloth bags which
afterwards became a synonym for attorneydom, but of black 524 lawyeress
buckram.
9
The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence
A glance at the law papers for the months of October, November, and December,
1867, will convince any one that its first effect was to create a wide—spread
feeling throughout attorneydom that the palmy days of the law were ended. “We
shall ...
Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Charles Henry Edward Carmichael, William Pinder Eversley, 1867
10
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846
Instead they insisted on dealing through attorneys, almost two-thirds of whom in
the eighteenth century were younger sons with gentry and mainly lesser gentry
backgrounds.93 Even so, attorneydom had never enjoyed the prestige of the Bar,
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