Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 5Virginia State Bar Association, 1892 - Bar associations |
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... principles of either the common law or equity , but only to simplify their appli- cation to the rights which courts and judges are instituted to pre- serve and protect . It is no novel attempt to impair the useful- ness of the two ...
... principles of either the common law or equity , but only to simplify their appli- cation to the rights which courts and judges are instituted to pre- serve and protect . It is no novel attempt to impair the useful- ness of the two ...
Page 30
... principles of the present system of common law and equity , but takes down the bar between the two ; and I think that when you look further into it , you will find that it does not destroy the distinction between equity and legal ...
... principles of the present system of common law and equity , but takes down the bar between the two ; and I think that when you look further into it , you will find that it does not destroy the distinction between equity and legal ...
Page 31
... principles are applied , the law yielding to the equity where they conflict , just as is true now . But there is another peculiarity of the proposed system that I admire . It is erroneously said that under it a demurrer will never lie ...
... principles are applied , the law yielding to the equity where they conflict , just as is true now . But there is another peculiarity of the proposed system that I admire . It is erroneously said that under it a demurrer will never lie ...
Page 33
... principles of the common law in order to practice efficiently under the new system . It is a mistake , too , to think that the change proposed is of such a radical character , at least so far as I understand and advocate it . We will ...
... principles of the common law in order to practice efficiently under the new system . It is a mistake , too , to think that the change proposed is of such a radical character , at least so far as I understand and advocate it . We will ...
Page 85
... of the impossible . We will find at last that there is more true science , including intelligence to comprehend and skill to express legal principles , in the broad and unfenced field of equity pleading than in the cramped ADDRESS ...
... of the impossible . We will find at last that there is more true science , including intelligence to comprehend and skill to express legal principles , in the broad and unfenced field of equity pleading than in the cramped ADDRESS ...
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