This diversity of jurisdiction, and subjection of the clergy only to the sentences of judges bribed by their esprit de corps to judge leniently, led to the adoption of a scale of punishments for the offences of clerks avowedly much lighter than that which was inflicted for the same crimes on laymen; and this in turn led to the survival in England, long after the Reformation, of the curious legal fiction of benefit of clergy (see below), used to mitigate the extreme harshness of the criminal law. [Please select]
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Her friend covering the display of esprit de corps. [Please select]
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C'est toujours avec le lendemain que mon esprit lutte.' [Please select]
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This youthful personnel, while it made for esprit de corps, had also its disadvantages. [Please select]