crim.
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noun
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As to Turkey as a question for a paper, I can only say as Lord Plunkett did of a crim. con. case: 'I'd like to have a hundred pounds to argue it either way.'
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
That's the English way of settlin' a crim. con. case.
From A Trooper Galahad by King, Charles
“Well, since they did away with crim. cons, there’s nothing left for females but murders and divorces, worth speaking of.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
We had no complex machinery of law; there was no such difficulty as an estate in Chancery; no Divorce Court, or cases of crim. con. that necessitated an appeal.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
Brown, crim. con. to be heard on or before Wednesday next.—Barley thirty-two to forty-two.—Fine upland meadow and rye grass hay, seventy to eighty.—The last pocket of hops I sold brought seven pounds fifteen shillings.
From Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Surtees, Robert Smith
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