Usage examples:
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But
even
a
person
of
quality,
if
he
took
to
riding
about
the
country
in
complete
steel,
assaulting
the
lieges,
and
setting
up
a
sort
of
cadi
justice
of
his
own
in
opposition
to
the
king's,
would
probably
have
been
brought
pretty
rapidly,
if
not
to
the
recovery
of
his
senses,
to
the
loss
of
his
liberty.
George Saintsbury in "The English Novel".
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When
the
Governor
of
Bagdad
had
been
taken
out
of
the
tent,
the
Caliph
said, "
Bring
in
now
Moussa
the
Cadi
H. N. Crellin in "Tales of the Caliph".
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"
But
on
our
return
we
found
that
Moussa,
who
holds
the
position
of
a
Cadi
or
judge,
had
already
taken
possession
of
the
whole
of
the
property,
and
he
altogether
refused
to
share
it
in
any
way
with
us,
alleging
that
our
father
had
promised
to
leave
him
all
that
he
had.
H. N. Crellin in "Tales of the Caliph".
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Haroun
ordered
the
Cadi
at
once
to
make
over
formally
the
whole
of
his
property
to
his
two
brothers,
Suleiman
and
Mohammed,
the
Caliph
adding
with
his
usual
grim
humour, "
As
you
are
a
man
of
the
law,
it
is
fit
that
you
do
justice
in
a
legal
way."
H. N. Crellin in "Tales of the Caliph".