Report of the West Virginia Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting

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Page 31 - No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false ; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it which are necessary to preserve its existence ; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw...
Page 200 - Newspaper publications by a lawyer as to pending or anticipated litigation may interfere with a fair trial in the courts and otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice. Generally they are to be condemned. If the extreme circumstances of a particular case justify a statement to the public, it is unprofessional to make it anonymously. An ex parte reference to the facts should not go beyond quotation from the records and papers on file in the court; but even in extreme...
Page 108 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Page 101 - Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
Page 200 - It is disreputable to hunt up defects in titles or other causes of action and inform thereof in order to be employed to bring suit, or to breed litigation by seeking out those with claims for personal injuries or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients...
Page 199 - IN SUPPORTING A CLIENT'S CAUSE. Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Page 29 - That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Page 108 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Page 109 - Judges may be removed from office for cause, by a concurrent vote of both houses of the General Assembly; but a majority of all the members elected to each house must concur in such vote, and the cause of removal shall be entered on the journal of each house.
Page 199 - An attorney should strive, at all times, to uphold the honor, maintain the dignity and promote the usefulness of the profession ; for it is so interwoven with the administration of justice, that whatever redounds to the good of one, advances the other; and the attorney thus discharges, not merely an obligation to his brothers, but a high duty to the State and his fellowman. 9. An attorney 'should not speak slightingly or disparagingly of his profession, or pander in...

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