Report of the West Virginia Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, Volume 12The Association, 1898 - Bar associations Includes a directory of members. |
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... body some nine months ago , and just now being promulgated from the mysterious dark room of the public printer , are proper subjects for our consideration . Outside of those acts of an administrative , economic and a benevolent ...
... body some nine months ago , and just now being promulgated from the mysterious dark room of the public printer , are proper subjects for our consideration . Outside of those acts of an administrative , economic and a benevolent ...
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... body placed ourselves on record as willing to start a nucleus for further advancement . While a legislator of a certain State is charged with having introduced a bill to prevent the wearing of “ bloom- ers , " we have thus far contented ...
... body placed ourselves on record as willing to start a nucleus for further advancement . While a legislator of a certain State is charged with having introduced a bill to prevent the wearing of “ bloom- ers , " we have thus far contented ...
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... body of acts passed , printed and bound and distributed within a reasonable fixed time after the adjournment of the Legislature with no loopholes or provisos for escape . As the law regulating the printing of the acts now stands , we ...
... body of acts passed , printed and bound and distributed within a reasonable fixed time after the adjournment of the Legislature with no loopholes or provisos for escape . As the law regulating the printing of the acts now stands , we ...
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... body of men , who in their own estimation are of paramount importance ? But popular opinion is not always correct , though it is undoubtedly formed and made up from facts , as they exist , or as presented to the popular gaze . The ...
... body of men , who in their own estimation are of paramount importance ? But popular opinion is not always correct , though it is undoubtedly formed and made up from facts , as they exist , or as presented to the popular gaze . The ...
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... body will have a higher appre- ciation of the importance of elevating and maintaining the standard of professional morals for the sake of the profession . But when I drop the unvarnished suggestion - that , aside from any sentimental ...
... body will have a higher appre- ciation of the importance of elevating and maintaining the standard of professional morals for the sake of the profession . But when I drop the unvarnished suggestion - that , aside from any sentimental ...
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Page 146 - Prayer is the simplest form of speech That infant lips can try ; Prayer the sublimest strains that reach The Majesty on high. 4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, The Christian's native air, His watchword at the gates of death ; He enters heaven with prayer. 5 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice, Returning from his ways, While angels in their songs rejoice, And cry,
Page 137 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 67 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 61 - suits in equity shall not be sustained in either of the courts of the United States in any case where a plain, adequate, and complete remedy may be had at law.
Page 57 - Due process of law in each particular case means such an exertion of the powers of government as the settled maxims of law permit and sanction, and under such safeguards for the protection of individual rights as those maxims prescribe for the class of cases to which the one in question belongs.
Page 66 - If the opinion of the supreme court covered the whole ground of this act, it ought not to control the co-ordinate authorities of this government. The congress, the executive, and the court, must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the constitution.
Page 67 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases, by all other departments of the Government.
Page 87 - He had before stated to their lordships—but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them—that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and that person is his client To save that client by all means and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among 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.
Page 66 - My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action ; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.
Page 13 - And the said association is formed to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, to promote reform in the law, to facilitate the administration of justice, to elevate the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and to cherish the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof.