/ · 1894 Brewer’s · L · Limb of the Law (A)
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A lawyer, or a clerk articled to a lawyer. The hands are limbs of the body, and the lawyer’s clerks are his hands to copy out what the head of the office directs.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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