Crossword-Solution: LITIGANT 8 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The Judge and the Rash Act A Judge who had for years looked in vain for an opportunity for infamous distinction, but whom no litigant thought worth bribing, sat one day upon the Bench, lamenting his hard lot, and threatening to put an end to his life if business did not improve.

The judge who lent his sacred authority in one case to support a friend, and in another to crush an enemy, and whose decisions were founded on family connexions or political relations, could not be supposed inaccessible to direct personal motives; and the purse of the wealthy was too often believed to be thrown into the scale to weigh down the cause of the poor litigant.

Any litigant so ill-advised as to call him Monsieur Cruchot would soon be made to feel his folly in court.

The indefatigable litigant wrote letters on this subject to the newspapers, which the newspapers did not insert and never answered.

The education of the official, too easily and too freely turned into ridicule, gives him an insight into human nature which, coupled with a little experience, renders him extremely formidable to the shifty criminal or the crafty litigant.