law stationer
Britishnoun
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a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
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a person who makes handwritten copies of legal documents
Example Sentences
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The deceased law stationer, if he had not left her rich, at least had left her in fairly comfortable circumstances.
From She Stands Accused by MacClure, Victor
By sedulous attention to my duties, I began to rise in the esteem of my employer, the law stationer, and he increased my salary from seven shillings to a guinea a-week.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
In 1815 Hone took great interest in the case of Eliza Fenning, a poor innocent servant girl, who was hung for a supposed attempt to poison her master, a law stationer in Chancery Lane.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
Her mother's brother, gentlemen, failed for eight hundred pounds, as a law stationer.'
From The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, Charles
To have the whole of Shakespeare's Plays copied out by a law stationer would cost more than two hundred pounds, and every new copy would cost as much as the first.
From Political economy by Jevons, W. Stanley
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