ADDRESS OF JOHN GOODE, PRESIDENT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, Delivered August 1, 1899. Gentlemen of the Virginia State Bar Association: Before proceeding to the discussion of my subject, I desire to avail myself of this the first opportunity I have had to tender to you the expression of my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the great honor so unexpectedly conferred upon me at your last annual meeting. It is indeed a high distinction to be chosen as the President of an Association like this, representing as it does, so much of the character, worth and intelligence of the Commonwealth. In obedience to the eleventh article of our Constitution, it becomes my duty to deliver an address upon some subject to be selected by myself. The performance of this duty is attended with no little embarrassment. The entire field of Jurisprudence has been so thoroughly explored by my distinguished predecessors in their able and learned addresses, delivered before you from year to year, and by the annual orators who have instructed and entertained you with their scholarly and brilliant orations, that in the performance of the task assigned to me, I find only a sheaf here and there to be gleaned. Believing that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential, I have thought that it might not be inappropriate to оссиру the time allotted to me in an attempt to recall to your |