Not P but Moby-Dick (73)

[Ian Livingston]

That's the way it appears in the phrasing.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:36 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As actual counsel in that crim. con. case?
>
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> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 3:01 PM Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Seems to me the intention is to say that Mr Erskine argued that the woman
>> mr. A abandoned due to her meanness was free to any taker who took her, if
>> you take my meaning, indicating mr A had no claim to her. So, yes, Erskine
>> was defending the lady and gentleman B.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 1:48 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I would suggest that it means only that he agreed with the other side.
>>> Seems
>>> that Melville would have made it more exact in description if he was
>>> actually counsel...
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 3:22 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > From Chapter 89:
>>> >
>>> > Mr. Erskine was counsel for the defendants; Lord Ellenborough was the
>>> > judge. In the course of the defence, the witty Erskine went on to
>>> > illustrate his position, by alluding to a recent crim. con. case,
>>> wherein a
>>> > gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife’s viciousness, had
>>> at
>>> > last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in the course of years,
>>> > repenting of that step, he instituted an action to recover possession
>>> of
>>> > her. Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying,
>>> > that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had
>>> once
>>> > had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging
>>> > viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so
>>> that she
>>> > became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman
>>> re-harpooned
>>> > her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman’s property, along
>>> with
>>> > whatever harpoon might have been found sticking in her.
>>> >
>>> > In saying "Erskine was on the other side", does it mean Erskine was
>>> > actually the defending lawyer in that other case, or only that he
>>> supported
>>> > the position of the other side?
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>>> >
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>>>
>>