Pleaders

Sadly this news has brought out the Special Pleaders in droves.

Archive 2007-07-29 2007

Sadly this news has brought out the Special Pleaders in droves.

Scots Whingeing Again 2007

-- C. Macer was never a man of much interest or authority, but was one of the most active Pleaders of his time; and if his life, his manners, and his very looks, had not ruined the credit of his genius, he would have ranked higher in the lift of Orators.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

But still continue, my Brutus, (notwithstanding the career of your genius has been checked by the rude shock of our public distresses) continue to pursue your favourite studies, and endeavour (what you have almost, or rather intirely effected already) to distinguish yourself from the promiscuous crowd of Pleaders with which I have loaded the little history I have been giving you.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

With a tolerable share of learning, and a very moderate capacity, his application, assiduity, and interest, procured him a place among the ablest Pleaders of the time for several years.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

M. Planche follows this typical use of the word in Virgil, in Ovid, and in Racine, the last of whom says in the _Pleaders_:

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Soon after I came out I asked one of the Pleaders to have a smoke with me-only a cigarette, mind.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

Pleaders and advocates are sometimes driven into it, because to use vigorous, clean, crisp

Style Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Pleaders, too, were equally absent; each party -- plaintiff and defendant -- was expected to plead his own case.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

I get on well in my legal studies & after Christmas shall go to a Special Pleaders office, where one years hard labour will qualify me for practising myself.

Letter 247 1797