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... come at last. Almost all that deserves the name of business there is the reference of the plantation acts to the opinion of gentlemen of the law. But all this may be done, as the Irish business of the same nature has always been done, by the Council, and with a reference to the Attorney and Solicitor General. ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... five shillings from a shop. Thus, Lord Ellenborough, in 1820, anticipated the worst effects from there being no punishment of death for stealing five shillings worth of wet linen from a bleaching ground. Thus the Solicitor General, in 1830, advocated the punishment of death for forgery, and "the satisfaction of thinking" in the teeth of mountains of evidence from bankers and other injured parties (one thousand bankers alone!) "that he was deterring persons from the commission of crime, by the severity of the law". Thus, ...

— Miscellaneous Papers • Charles Dickens

... of the Court of Queen's Bench, by Lord Denman, on last Thursday, has filled the bar with consternation.—"What is to become of our clients?" said Fitzroy Kelly.—"And of our fees?" added the Solicitor General.—"I feel deeply for my clients," sighed Serjeant Bompas.—"We all compassionate them, brother," observed Wilde.—In short, one and all declare it was a most arbitrary and unprecedented curtailment of their little term—and, to say the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, December 4, 1841 • Various

Words linked to "Solicitor general" : law officer, peace officer, lawman