An Essay on Professional EthicsT. & J. W. Johnson & Company, 1860 - 158 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxiv
... party who recommends and carefully frames the bill , which , when enacted into a law , is legislatively to decide the cause . It is time that a resort to such a measure should be regarded in public estimation as a flagrant case of ...
... party who recommends and carefully frames the bill , which , when enacted into a law , is legislatively to decide the cause . It is time that a resort to such a measure should be regarded in public estimation as a flagrant case of ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... parties in the pro- secution of their rights , is thus necessarily an important political branch of the government . That department spreads the broad and im- pregnable shield of its protection over the life , limbs , liberty , and ...
... parties in the pro- secution of their rights , is thus necessarily an important political branch of the government . That department spreads the broad and im- pregnable shield of its protection over the life , limbs , liberty , and ...
الصفحة xl
... parties were bound to know , and in accordance with which they are to be presumed to have acted . SACRED . • As well in the domain of public as of private law , the great fundamental principle for judge and counsellor ought to be , THAT ...
... parties were bound to know , and in accordance with which they are to be presumed to have acted . SACRED . • As well in the domain of public as of private law , the great fundamental principle for judge and counsellor ought to be , THAT ...
الصفحة xlix
... party was heard but not the other , and the temptation it held out for the manufacture of false claims , to be supported by perjury . But it is to lose sight of the real question involved to raise such an issue : for , like the ...
... party was heard but not the other , and the temptation it held out for the manufacture of false claims , to be supported by perjury . But it is to lose sight of the real question involved to raise such an issue : for , like the ...
الصفحة 9
... parties prefer to live in a coun try , in which justice according to law is impar- tially administered . Counsel should bear in mind also the wearisomeness of a judge's office ; how much he sees and hears in the course of a long session ...
... parties prefer to live in a coun try , in which justice according to law is impar- tially administered . Counsel should bear in mind also the wearisomeness of a judge's office ; how much he sees and hears in the course of a long session ...
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الصفحة 20 - Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein : and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
الصفحة xxxiii - It would declare that an act, which, according to the principles and theory of our government, is entirely void; is yet, in practice, completely obligatory. It would declare, that if the legislature shall do what is expressly forbidden, such act, notwithstanding the express prohibition, is in reality effectual. It would be giving to the legislature a practical and real omnipotence, with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits, and declaring...
الصفحة 36 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
الصفحة 24 - entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability...
الصفحة 30 - ... them, to himself, is his first and only duty ; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm, the torments, the destruction which he may bring upon others.
الصفحة 123 - Long in his highness' favour, and do justice For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones, When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings, May have a tomb of orphans
الصفحة 1 - There is, perhaps, no profession after that of the sacred ministry, in which a high-toned morality is more imperatively necessary than that of the law.
الصفحة xxxii - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution; if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty. If, then, the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act...
الصفحة xxxvi - ... deprived of his life, liberty, or property, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
الصفحة 133 - Up to this morning I believed most firmly in his innocence; and so did many others as well as myself. 'I have sent for you, gentlemen,' said he, 'to tell you I committed the murder!" When I could speak, which was not immediately, I said : 'Of course, then, you are going to plead guilty?' 'No, sir,' was the reply; 'I expect you to defend me to the utmost.