The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. Dr. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull, 1712. The words of consecration, 'Hoc est corpus,' were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as 'Hocus-pocus.' John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874.
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