Lawyer who tries to practice without lying fails. He enters religious order and tries to conduct the legal business without lying — Mythoi

Motif

Lawyer who tries to practice without lying fails. He enters religious order and tries to conduct the legal business without lying.

Humor. · Humor of social classes. · Humor dealing with professions. · Jokes on lawyers. · view the constellation · filed as X314

Cited in the index

general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 127
general Crane Vitry 155 No. 52
general Scala Celi 7b No. 47
general Alphabet No. 483.

Within the index

Filed under Jokes on lawyers. (Cf. P422.)

Filed beside it

What will happen when there are so many lawyers. Woman sees the crowds of students in the law school. She knows that the one lawyer in her village has ruined nearly everyone Beggar frightens lawyer into giving by telling him of all the lawyers in hell Dying like Christ – between two thieves. The dying man has the lawyer and the notary stand on either side of him Dying lawyer says, "I appeal" Nero has reserved place in hell for lawyers Lawyer thrown back into mud when rescuers learn that he is a lawyer Lawyer loses tongue in death because he sold it in life Miscellaneous jokes about lawyers

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