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id: 51420
author: Newman, Louis
title: License to Steal
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sentence: 148
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Of special interest to the legally inclined student is the famous Skrrgck Affair, which began before the Galactic Tribunal with the case of _Citizens vs. Skrrgck_. The Skrrgck case was by no means concluded by the decision of the Galactic Tribunal, but continued to reverberate down the years, a field day for lawyers, and a lesson to all in the complexities of modern intergalactic law and society, said Winston, Harold C, Herman Prof, of Legal History, Harvard.


id: 60981
author: Stamers, James
title: The Useless Bugbreeders
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words: 3665
sentence: 335
flesch: 85
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summary:
  While Mr. Lood gets this started, Your Honors, I said, hoping the viruses or whatever were not fatal to humans, may I submit the usefulness of fungus foods for space-travel and for pioneers on inhospitable planets? Are we having difficulties with General Food-Concentrates, the Travelers Capsule Combine and the other ten thousand concerns in this line, Mr. Jones? At this point I propose a few simple demonstrations of what Mr. Lood and his people can do.


id: 58802
author: Coppel, Alfred
title: Community Property
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words: 6443
sentence: 617
flesch: 88
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summary:
  So far I had managed to keep her pay low enough so she couldn't think of leaving my employ--though she was earning a few prots on the side by acting as correspondent in divorce cases that couldn't be settled by Collusion Court and actually had to be tried before a judge and jury. Different_ cases?


id: 23534
author: Garrett, Randall
title: ...Or Your Money Back
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words: 8001
sentence: 699
flesch: 91
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summary:
  Mr. Howley, my profession is Law--with a capital L. Just how do you operate this good luck charm, Mr. Howley?


id: 60467
author: Riley, Frank
title: A Question of Identity
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words: 9636
sentence: 594
flesch: 78
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summary:
  By means of projection on a large screen, Jake demonstrated to the jurors and Judge Hayward that Tony Corfino, defendant, had an entirely different electrocardiagram from the Tony Corfino whose crushed body had been pulled, more dead than alive, from the wreckage of a burning automobile. Any mule can kick a barn down; it takes a good carpenter to build one, he had once told Jake. Selection of the jury proceeded at a creeping pace, which court reporters had come to expect with both the D.A. and Jake Emspak in the same courtroom.


id: 25985
author: Dickens, Charles
title: Bardell v. Pickwick
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words: 32901
sentence: 1599
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Witness Jackson, when he came to serve Mr. Pickwick and friends with the _subpoenas_. The law has since been changed, and by later Acts both Mrs. Bardell and Mr. Pickwick would have been allowed to tell their stories and to have been cross-examined.


id: 57631
author: Buchan, John
title: The Power-House
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words: 33587
sentence: 2025
flesch: 84
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summary:
  I owe you a good deal, old man, I said. A whistle was blown and more men appeared--one entering from the far end of the mews, one darting from a public-house door, and one sliding down a ladder from a stable-loft.


id: 30910
author: Upward, Allen
title: The Queen Against Owen
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words: 45079
sentence: 2839
flesch: 83
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summary:
  'On the night of the first of June last Mr. Lewis, deceased's nephew, left the house about 10 o'clock and did not return that night. 'Mr. Tressamer is inside, sir.


id: 32221
author: Hill, Frederick Trevor
title: The Case and Exceptions: Stories of Counsel and Clients
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words: 45028
sentence: 2720
flesch: 82
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summary:
  They have the same pride and ambition and morals that other men have. But his judgment of men, though slow, was sure.


id: 20451
author: Train, Arthur Cheney
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words: 50521
sentence: 2276
flesch: 74
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title:
  The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers"

summary:
  Mr. Gottlieb spat into a sawdust box under the table and winked with great deliberation. What have you to say, Mr. Gottlieb? asked the judge.


id: 34171
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile
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words: 58671
sentence: 2664
flesch: 76
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summary:
  Better than this, however, better even than personal beauty, with which he was plentifully endowed, Mr. Hopkins Toppleton was blessed with a great name, which he had received ready-made from his illustrious father, late head of the legal firm of Toppleton, Morley, Harkins, Perkins, Mawson, Bronson, Smithers and Hicks. To the agent's credit be it said that when Hopkins Toppleton came along and desired to rent the apartment for office use his first impulse was to make a clean breast of the matter, and to say to him that in his own opinion and that of others the room was haunted and had been so for many years; but when he reflected that his conscience, such as it was, along with the rest of his being, was in the employ of the proprietors of the building, he felt that it was his duty to hold his peace.


id: 10440
author: Train, Arthur Cheney
title: Tutt and Mr. Tutt
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words: 65597
sentence: 4046
flesch: 80
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summary:
  He says he killed him, and that's all there is about it! said Tutt to Mr. Tutt. Oh, remarked Mr. Tutt with entire good nature.


id: 12535
author: Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
title: Witness for the Defence
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words: 75016
sentence: 5827
flesch: 91
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summary:
  But lots of people live in India, Mr. Thresk. No, she has never once mentioned your name, Mr. Thresk.


id: 11987
author: Train, Arthur Cheney
title: By Advice of Counsel
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words: 70723
sentence: 4266
flesch: 79
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summary:
  And having made this opening statement with all the earnestness and solemnity of which he was capable Mr. Tutt called to prove the defendant's good reputation, first, Father Plunkett, the priest to whom Danny made his monthly confession and who told the jury that he knew no better man in all his parish; second, Mulqueen, who described Danny's love of horses, his knowledge of them, his mysterious intuition concerning their hidden ailments, which, being as they could not speak, it was given to few to know, and how night after night he would sit up with a sick or dying animal to relieve its pain without thought of himself or of any earthly reward; then, man after man and woman after woman from the neighborhood of West Twenty-third Street who gave Danny the best of characters, including policemen, firemen, delicatessens, hotel keepers, and Salvatore, the proprietor of the night lunch frequented by Mr. Tutt. Mr. Tutt emerged from behind the jury box and took his stand at Tony's side.]


id: 6942
author: Scott, Walter
title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
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words: 110255
sentence: 3446
flesch: 62
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summary:
  The sweetness, the courage, the spirit, the integrity of Jeanie Deans have made her, of all Scott's characters, the dearest to her countrymen, and the name of Jeanie was given to many children, in pious memory of the blameless heroine. Hetty and Dinah are in very much the same situation and condition as Effie and Jeanie Deans.


id: 6943
author: Scott, Walter
title: The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2
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words: 131429
sentence: 3939
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Ye musquet and calliver-men, Do you prove true to me, I'll be the foremost man in fight, Said brave Lord Willoughbee. When the meal was finished, the Captain proposed to them to take boat, in order that Mrs. Jeanie might see her new place of residence, and that he himself might inquire whether the necessary preparations had been made there, and at the Manse, for receiving the future inmates of these mansions.


id: 61865
author: Caine, Hall, Sir
title: The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin
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sentence: 11077
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Special editions of the newspapers (single sheets) had been run off in furious haste, and the newsboys were shouting through the streets, _Arrest of Deemster Victor Stowell._ Could the son of Deemster Stowell be a scoundrel?


id: 1023
author: Dickens, Charles
title: Bleak House
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sentence: 18580
flesch: 81
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summary:
  Said to-day was his birthday Mr. Jarndyce, he pursued, being aware of the--I would say, desolate--position of our young friend, offers to place her at a first-rate establishment where her education shall be completed, where her comfort shall be secured, where her reasonable wants shall be anticipated, where she shall be eminently qualified to discharge her duty in that station of life unto which it has pleased--shall I say Providence?--to call her.


