The term has been used by judges in Canada; in one a Canadian Construction Board gave an example of " sharp practice " for one party to " take advantage of a clear oversight by the judgement, judges should not accuse counsel of sharp practice lightly and should generally not make such an accusation based solely on written submissions.
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Webster writes : " As regards money, Haydn was so self-interested as to shock [ both ] contemporaries and many later authorities . . . . He always attempted to maximize his income, whether by negotiating the right to sell his music outside the Esterh�zy court, driving hard bargains with publishers or selling his works three and four times over; he regularly engaged in'sharp practice'and occasionally in outright fraud.
