Law Officer

The arraignment and preparatory routine of the trial gave time for the court to subside into order; and the address of the principal law-officer for the prosecution, though exciting the deepest anxiety, was listened to in the most respectful silence. ❋ Various (N/A)

Seven have no portion in the world to come: -- A notary; a schoolmaster, the best of physicians, a judge who dispenses justice in his own native town, a wizard, a congregational reader (or law-officer), and a butcher. ❋ Various (N/A)

Constantine got ready for it, strongly recommending the establishment of civil courts, the appointment of an administrator and law-officer and the reinforcing of the Police so that they could be scattered up and down the new mining areas as required. ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)

Whether Punch's friend, the Attorney General, has had the epistle handed over to him, and contemplates immediate proceedings against "C. H.," the traitorous writer, Punch knows not; but after this information, the distinguished law-officer cannot plead ignorance of the evil, as an apology for future supineness. ❋ Charles Larcom (1921)

Archibald Campbell of Kilmhor, invested with authority as law-officer of the Crown, bearing in my hand the power of life and death, fire and the sword, backed up by the visible authority of armed men, and yet I am powerless before the dreams of an old woman and a half-grown lad -- soldiers and horses and the gallows and yellow gold are less than the wind blowing in their faces. ❋ Eugene O'Neill (1920)

There were seven judges, he who presided being a law-officer, and the other six captains of different grades, chosen mostly from among the survivors of those troops whom the Northmen had defeated on the night of the battle in the palace gardens. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Muhammadan law-officer, of Ludhiana, in the Panjab. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)

Allow me to read you the abstract of a conversation between an English official and a native law-officer as reported by Colonel Sleeman. ❋ Alexander Wilder (1861)

The Mahommedan law-officer before whom the case was tried declared, that he could not, according to law, admit as valid the evidence of the wife and two sons of the murdered ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

(law-officer) had made a great uproar against the comedy of the ❋ Unknown (1830)

a dog very like his had been seen prowling about the fold; but in order to determine the point, he would be visited, it was added, in the course of the day, by the shepherd and a law-officer. ❋ Adam White (1848)

Pierre Dubois, law-officer of the crown at Coutances, "De ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Person #1 [My phone] says I missed a call. They said [law office] when I called. Person#2 Shit, you better [get rid of] you're computer man. ❋ The Guy Who Can't Find A Name (2009)

"When a cop calls himself a Law-Enforcement Officer, it's like a garbage-man calling himself a Sanitation-Worker, or a [clerk] calling herself a Sales-Associate." "Being a [Policeman] is an honorable-profession. Nothing is more [vital] to Public-Safety than the humble street-cop; Be proud of who you are, and of what you do." ❋ Goodcop8 (2007)