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(n) Solicitous to make all our biographical articles the vehicles of truth, and particularly desirous to do justice to the memory of our illustrious countryman Sir Robert Strange, we applied for information respecting him to the person whom we considered as the most capable of furnishing it, and to whom we imagined that our application would be in a high degree grateful. With some difficulty we obtained, as a favour to ourselves, the sketch

in law, denotes a person who is not privy or party to an act. Thus a stranger to a judgment is he to whom a judgment does not belong; in which sense the word stands directly opposed to party or privy.