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total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in
Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant, who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled, has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out.
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Justice. We stood aside, watching for any countenance we knew; and presently great bundles of paper began to be carried out—bundles in bags, bundles too large to be got into any bags, immense masses of papers of all shapes and no shapes, which the bearers staggered under, and threw down for the time being, anyhow, on the Hall pavement, while they went back to bring out more. Even these clerks were laughing. We glanced at the papers, and seeing
Jarndyce and Jarndyce everywhere, asked an official-looking person who was standing in the midst of them, whether the cause was over. "Yes," he said; "it was all up with it at last!" and burst out laughing too. ...
375:(PPI) scandal in the United Kingdom, for which “banks were found to have been unloading unwanted and often wildly disadvantageous account insurance policies on their clients.” According to Graeber, “the result was an entire new industry organized around resolving PPI claims,” leading banks to enter into contracts with professionals and firms intent on making sure the problem was never actually solved, because they eyed the “vast sums set aside by the bank to pay compensation for the PPI”.
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which is (I am assured) no nearer to its termination now than when it was begun. There is another well-known suit in
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Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a
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was pushed by financial necessity to write for money; she became a much-praised poet. That
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