law-officers

He surmised that there were law-officers in the boat who were after us.

That Spot 2010

He surmised that there were law-officers in the boat who were after us.

That Spot 2010

Bad men began to fidget at the mere mention of it, and law-officers felt uncomfortable around the collar.

Richard Conroy Steve 2010

It is somewhat remarkable that the extraordinary proceedings of this person should have been tolerated for so long a time by the law-officers of the Crown; but his growing audacity at last led to their interference, and what is termed an action of reduction was brought against him and his agent.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

After this momentous announcement, which transforms (subject to the opinion of the law-officers) every tenant-farmer into a pheasant-proprietor,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Various

The merciful spirit in which the prosecutions were conducted by the law-officers of the Crown, was repeatedly pointed out to the misguided criminals by the Judges; who, on many occasions, intimated that the Government had chosen to indict for the minor offence only, when the facts would have undoubtedly warranted an indictment for high treason, with all its terrible consequences.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

He would not have charged the most talented, distinguished, and impartial law-officers of the crown with having strained the law to protect a delinquent because he was a

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

The law-officers of the Crown denied the validity of these documents, which emanated from the most suspicious sources -- some being forwarded by a noted Parisian fortune-teller, called Madlle le Normand; and after Mr. Humphreys had been judicially examined with regard to them, he was served with an indictment to stand his trial for forgery before the High Court of Justiciary, at

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

Two large towers, with conical tops over a portcullised gateway, admitted the prisoners into a small square court, round which were ranged the offices of the lieutenant of police, and the chambers of the law-officers of the crown.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

The law-officers of the Crown were immediately instructed to prosecute the ministers who had attended, and fourteen of them were tried and sentenced to imprisonment -- two of them, Forbes the

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison