Re:Pre-decimal currency (was: Absent posters (Trivia)


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Posted by Adam Quinan on June 26, 2009 at 13:35:50 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re:Pre-decimal currency (was: Absent posters (Trivia) posted by Alan Hakim on June 26, 2009 at 11:15:43:

I checked in Google Books and came up with the following quote from Chambers Journal August 1 1889 in an article entitled "A Chat about Solicitors"

"The popular notion is that every time the solicitor is interviewed by his client every time he puts pen to paper to indite a letter indeed whenever he exerts mind or body in the slightest degree he charges and is paid a fee which is invariably put at six shillings and eightpence. And in support of this idea there is a little anecdote which relates how a solicitor was walking down the street when a client meeting him observed that the weather was fine and inquired if the lawyer thought it would hold up; who replied that he considered there was every probability of its doing so. Some little time after the client was astounded at receiving a bill as follows: 'Attending you on your consulting me as to the state of the weather conferring and advising thereon - 6s 8d'. As a fact the solicitor's fee is sometimes more sometimes less than the above mystical amount while in certain cases the law does not allow him to make any charge at all."



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