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Twelve Commissions, Costed and Clocked
The first is a sluice court attendance in the Nieuwlanden. A British house holds frontage behind a dike, the charge on it is disputed, and the court sits in the season when the work is done rather than when the lawyers are free. A party of four is engaged to attend the hearing, to accompany the house’s assessor along the frontage while it is inspected, and to see that the inspection is not interfered with. The clock is three weeks: two days out, a fortnight waiting for the court, two days back. The fee is flat and modest. What goes wrong is the waiting, because a party with a fortnight and nothing to do in a town that dislikes it has ended more engagements than any dike ever did.
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