This part of Henrys policy is connected with the name of his two extortionate fiscal judges Empson and Dudley, who turned law and justice into rapine by their minute inquisition into all technical breaches of legality, and the nice fashion in which they adapted the fine to the wealth of the misdemeanant, without any reference to his moral guilt or any regard for extenuating circumstances. [Please select]
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He was, I understand, at one time a firstclass misdemeanant in Glencree reformatory. [Please select]
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At college he had put him down for a weakling--unballasted, misdemeanant. [Please select]
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And it was done, the transformation accomplished; his inability to refrain from interfering had encompassed his downfall, had changed a peaceable and law-abiding alien within British shores into a busybody, a trespasser, a misdemeanant, a--yes, for all he knew to the contrary, in the estimation of the Law, a burglar, prime candidate for a convict's stripes. [Please select]
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