Word: solicitor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...
...solicitor of Dr. Lamson asks for a further respite...