Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 2Virginia State Bar Association, 1889 - Bar associations |
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... interest hereafter , and will be useful in many ways . I desire , in conclusion , to announce that we have now two hundred and fifty - seven members on the roll , and since the last meeting have lost by death one member , the Hon ...
... interest hereafter , and will be useful in many ways . I desire , in conclusion , to announce that we have now two hundred and fifty - seven members on the roll , and since the last meeting have lost by death one member , the Hon ...
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... interest of the people ? Sir , all these officers will wax fat upon the fees wrung from unfortunate litigants for filing and copying complaints and answers , amended and further com- plaints , and amended and further answers under this ...
... interest of the people ? Sir , all these officers will wax fat upon the fees wrung from unfortunate litigants for filing and copying complaints and answers , amended and further com- plaints , and amended and further answers under this ...
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... interests of his clients . Not only is it destructive on account of delay , but on account of some of its gross and patent errors . Among other things I may allude to the present law with reference to a certificate of evidence before ...
... interests of his clients . Not only is it destructive on account of delay , but on account of some of its gross and patent errors . Among other things I may allude to the present law with reference to a certificate of evidence before ...
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... , which , apart from the merits of the proposition itself , led me to take a peculiar and active interest in it . That proposition would then have become a law , so far as the Legislature REMARKS OF R. T. BARTON . 23.
... , which , apart from the merits of the proposition itself , led me to take a peculiar and active interest in it . That proposition would then have become a law , so far as the Legislature REMARKS OF R. T. BARTON . 23.
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... interests of justice , and that the English common law is growing daily more inconsistent with the spirit of our institutions and the progress of the age , and that a reform in our laws is indispensably necessary ; therefore be it ...
... interests of justice , and that the English common law is growing daily more inconsistent with the spirit of our institutions and the progress of the age , and that a reform in our laws is indispensably necessary ; therefore be it ...
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Page 182 - 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 185 - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : (1) the time and labor required...
Page 182 - 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 146 - The judicial department comes home, in its effects, to every man's fireside ; it passes on his property, his reputation, his life, his all. Is it not to the last degree important that he should be rendered perfectly and completely Independent, with nothing to influence or control him, but God and his conscience?
Page 184 - ... client, the course to be pursued should be left to his determination. The client's decision should be cheerfully acquiesced in, unless the nature of the difference makes it impracticable for the attorney to co-operate heartily and effectively; in which event, it is his duty to ask to be discharged.
Page 76 - Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any meeting of the Association...
Page 183 - TO CONTROL THE INCIDENTS OF THE TRIAL As to incidental matters pending the trial, not affecting the merits of the cause, or working substantial prejudice to the rights of the client, such as forcing the opposite lawyer to trial when he is under affliction or bereavement; forcing the trial on a particular day to the injury of the opposite lawyer when no harm will result from a trial at a different time; agreeing to an extension...
Page 182 - When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as the attestation or custody of an instrument and the like, he should leave the trial of the case to other counsel. Except when essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client.
Page 179 - ... arising. There are pitfalls and mantraps at every step, and the mere youth, at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is the only safe guide, the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction."— GEORGE SHARSWOOD.
Page 181 - Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law.