impecuniosity
impecuniousness

Impecuniosity was his lot, but the following year, he passed out as a Bachelor of Law.

The impecuniosity of the plaintiff, the court asserted, is merely a fact to be considered together with all other facts.

He had to support a sister and her children - the only relatives we know of - and his whole career was blighted by impecuniosity.

"The public seems to believe that there exists some half secret remedies as yet unemployed to cure the impecuniosity of States.

A rule of English law has it that expenses resulting from the plaintiff's impecuniosity are in principle irrecoverable.

It is curious to notice how his impecuniosity reduced him to regard every goal of his ambition as having merely a cash value.

Surely something would come along to relieve his chronic impecuniosity for just sufficient length of time to enable him to spread himself on this great occasion.

'Gentlemen,' said he, 'you see before you an operator who has reached the limit of impecuniosity.' "

Not far from the limit of impecuniosity was Edison himself, as he landed in Boston in 1868 after this wintry ordeal.

The case is especially important in the area of delict, bearing on the question of the remoteness of damages and a plaintiff's impecuniosity.

Mr. Hubbard was a florid, red-whiskered little man, whose admiration for art was considerably tempered by the inveterate impecuniosity of most of the artists who dealt with him.

This impecuniosity was due to the fact that a book by Willoughby, entitled "De Historia Piscium," had been recently printed by the society at great expense.

Loose women, treating him as a friend, told him the troubles, difficulties, and successes of their lives; and card-sharpers, respecting his impecuniosity, stood him dinners and lent him five-pound notes.

Being a levelheaded individual who could give points to not a few in point of shrewd observation he also remarked on his very dilapidated hat and slouchy wearing apparel generally testifying to a chronic impecuniosity.

Another amusing story of this period of impecuniosity and financial strain is told thus by Edison: "My friend Adams was working in the Franklin Telegraph Company, which competed with the Western Union.

She had high hopes that Ikey must eventually send her the combination to the safe when she pleaded impecuniosity, his debts incurred by his orders having become too large for her to carry any further on her own.

When his poverty became overwhelming, Shaikh Jamalu'd-Din, using ShaikhNizamuddin Auliya of Delhi as a go-between, informed Baba Sahib of his extreme impecuniosity.

There can be no doubt, the court held in a further appeal, that in South African law the ratio of Liesbosch Dredger v Steamship Edison (regarding damages consisting of expenses incurred as a result of the plaintiff's impecuniosity) has no right of existence.

When did a national impecuniousness ever a joke?

He could be wryly humorous about his impecuniousness.

Most of my friends are journalists and claim fund-raising immunity on that ground; the rest plead everything from sloth to impecuniousness.

Like Edward she knew the 'reason why we don't marry is not our immaturity but impecuniousness'.

During this period of time, Neukloster was confronted with impecuniousness and balefulness, but after all, Neukloster endured this time until 1803.

In Lily's scenes with Lawrence Selden (Eric Stoltz), the lawyer who would be her ideal husband were it not for his relative impecuniousness, Ms. Anderson comports herself with horsy flirtatiousness that is uncomfortable to watch.

As David watches events that can never take place again, such as the Woodbrook dance, and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness, he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe, his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood.