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Lawyers In Term / Designed By Necessity ; Executed By Rapacity.

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TITLE:  Lawyers in term / designed by Necessity ; executed by Rapacity. CALL NUMBER:  PC 3 - 1786--Lawyers in term (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZ62-23103 (b&w film copy neg.) RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY:  Print shows lawyers for the defendant on one side and lawyers for the plaintiff's case on the other side of the defendant tugging at his clothing which is labeled with various legal terms. Elements or "part of defendant's case" are piled on the ground on the left, while the plaintiff's case is neatly contained in a bundle on the right. Captioned: "Oh! the glorious uncertainty of the Law!" and "As if a Defendant were dissected to see how by Law he is affected." Includes eight lines of verse. MEDIUM:  1 print : etching. CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [London] : Pub'd for the Proprietor, as the Act directs, by J. Nunn, Bookseller, Stationer and Printseller, Great Queen Street, 1786 Feby. 13. NOTES: Title from item. Attributed to William Dent. Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Law & legal affairs--England--1780-1790. Lawyers--England--1780-1790. FORMAT: Satires (Visual works) British 1780-1790.Etchings 1780-1790. REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a24171 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a24171 CONTROL #:  2003675465