Proceedings of the State Bar Association of Wisconsin, Volume 5

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Biographical sketches of deceased members of the Wisconsin bar included in many of the volumes.
 

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Page 110 - The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, and shall extend to all cases at law, without regard to the amount in controversy; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all cases in the manner prescribed by law.
Page 146 - There is the moral of all human tales ; « 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 118 - Words giving a joint authority to three or more public officers or other persons, are construed as giving such authority to a majority of them, unless it is otherwise expressed in the act giving the authority; 18. When the seal of a court or public officer is required by law to be affixed to any paper, the word "seal...
Page 64 - Grievances ; who shall be charged with the hearing of all complaints against members of the Association, and also all complaints which may be made in matters affecting the interests of the legal profession, the practice of the law and the administration of justice...
Page 66 - Any member may be suspended or expelled for misconduct in his relations to the Association, or in his profession...
Page 31 - I move that the rules be suspended and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot of the Association in favor of these gentlemen whose applications were last read.
Page 142 - Yet if excitement has risen high over the country, a majority of the people may acquiesce ; and then it matters little whether what is really a revolution be accomplished by openly violating or by merely distorting the forms of law. To the people we come sooner or later : it is upon their wisdom and self-restraint that the stability of the most cunningly devised scheme of government will in the last resort depend.
Page 61 - ... two of whom shall be elected for one year, two for two years and two for three years from the date of the annual school meeting next succeeding such special meeting.
Page 35 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings, or proceedings, which shall not affect the substantial rights of the parties ; and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 116 - I am, therefore, of the opinion that the system of trial by jury would be much more valuable, much shorn of many of its evils, and much more entitled to the confidence of the public as well as of the legal and judicial minds of the country, if some number less than the whole should be authorized to render a verdict.

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