1853 C. Dickens Bleak House i. 4 ‘Mr. Tangle,’ says the Lord High Chancellor... ‘Mlud,’ says Mr. Tangle.

1888 Punch 28 Jan. 41/2 Well, m'Luds, I read in this here book that waste was quite different in Law than in fact... He never wasted it, m'Luds, but sold it at a good price.

1901 R. Marsh Both Sides of Veil 43 I propose to show, m'lud, that George Ogden died on Sunday, May 3rd.

1979 J. Grimond Memoirs iv. 67 We coached him in all the palaver of the court,..the ‘Yes m'lud’ and ‘No m'lud’.

1996 Independent (Electronic ed.) 5 Dec. Counsel:..He is a man I met in the pub last night, m'Lud.

1867 G. A. Sala From Waterloo to Peninsula vi. 53 ‘Asides’ to the solicitors engaged in the case, undertone remarks to their juniors, and interminable ‘m'luds’ and ‘y'rludsh'ps’.

1885 Time Jan. 99 ‘Are you rehearsing your “M' Luds” for the next occasion?’.. ‘No,’ said Nixon, ‘you'll never see me in that old Parliament House again.’

1967 Guardian 31 July 5/1 I remember him playing the part of a prosecuting counsel..full of patronising ‘M'luds’.

1994 Independent (Electronic ed.) 15 Dec. In the 21st century the law [in Wales] has been stripped entirely of the old English conventions, no wigs or tabs, no ‘M'luds’ or ‘Your Honours’.

1879 Catholic World Aug. 634/1 His senior, Mr. Calvert Sommerset, Q.C., being engaged on another case before ‘m'luds’, the duty not only of stating but of making the case devolved upon the young barrister.

1898 W. C. Brann Brann the Iconoclast I. 461 He hied himself to ‘perfidious Albion’ and took up his abode in its foggy metropolis, surrounded by m'luds, whom he so much admires.

1920 H. A. Vachell Fourth Dimension ii. 56 M'lud is terrific in Court. And our smooth-tongued statesman is Olympian in Downing Street.

1962 Kenyon Rev. 24 607 Tom..was briefly married to an English movie star, whom he himself divorced in a real English divorce case with ‘m'luds’ and corespondents.

2000 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 16 Sept. Around 50 judges convened..recently to discuss sentencing policy. As if to cock a snook, thieves rifled the cloakroom and made off with a pair of m'luds' wallets.

1886 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 223 To make the grievous mistake of ‘my-ludding’ the counsel.

1942 G. Greene Brit. Dramatists 33 Lady Teazle ‘m'ludding’ and flirting a fan.

1981 D. Clark Roast Eggs viii. 159 Don't m'lud me... You turned my court into a damned three-ring circus.