Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 26Virginia State Bar Association, 1913 - Bar associations |
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... believe unless there is some objection of- fered to the report of the Executive Committee that it is custo- mary to receive and file the same without formal action by the meeting , and the chair hearing no object the report will take ...
... believe unless there is some objection of- fered to the report of the Executive Committee that it is custo- mary to receive and file the same without formal action by the meeting , and the chair hearing no object the report will take ...
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... believe that is the general sentiment of a large number of members of this Association . It has appeared in print that at the last session of this Asso- ciation , held at Old Point Comfort , I , as the author of the resolu- tion which ...
... believe that is the general sentiment of a large number of members of this Association . It has appeared in print that at the last session of this Asso- ciation , held at Old Point Comfort , I , as the author of the resolu- tion which ...
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... believe there is a man in this room who could not pass our ex- amination if he would sit down and take it question by question and read them over as carefully as he would do if he were ans- wering them on an examination . But we do not ...
... believe there is a man in this room who could not pass our ex- amination if he would sit down and take it question by question and read them over as carefully as he would do if he were ans- wering them on an examination . But we do not ...
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... believe it would make them easier . I have no doubt whatever it would increase the percentage of those who pass . It will enable men to come down here from the law schools , when fresh from their school examination periods , take our ...
... believe it would make them easier . I have no doubt whatever it would increase the percentage of those who pass . It will enable men to come down here from the law schools , when fresh from their school examination periods , take our ...
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... believe ours is a learned profession . I do not believe every man should be let in to practice law just because he has a good character . We will not let every doctor come and take a whack at us because he is a man of good char- acter ...
... believe ours is a learned profession . I do not believe every man should be let in to practice law just because he has a good character . We will not let every doctor come and take a whack at us because he is a man of good char- acter ...
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Page 327 - The Constitution is either a superior paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and like other Acts is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true then a legislative Act contrary to the Constitution is not law. If the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Page 355 - No client, corporate or individual, however powerful, nor any cause, civil or political, however important, is entitled to receive nor should any lawyer render any service or advice involving disloyalty to the law whose ministers we are, or disrespect of the judicial office, which we are bound to uphold, or corruption of any person or persons exercising a public office or private trust, or deception or betrayal of the public.
Page 348 - NEGOTIATIONS WITH OPPOSITE PARTY A lawyer should not in any way communicate upon the subject of controversy with a party represented by counsel; much less should he undertake to negotiate or compromise the matter with him, but should deal only with his counsel. It is incumbent upon the lawyer most particularly to avoid everything that may tend to mislead a party not represented by counsel, and he should not undertake to advise him as to the law.
Page 155 - New times demand new measures and new men ; The world advances, and in time outgrows The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us, some purer scheme Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.
Page 327 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Page 355 - Correspondingly, he advances the honor of his profession and the best interests of his client when he renders service or gives advice tending to impress upon the client and his undertaking exact compliance with the strictest principles of moral law.
Page 352 - ... the Judge arguments upon any point not properly calling for determination by him. Neither should he introduce into an argument addressed to the Court, remarks or statements intended to influence the jury or bystanders. These and all kindred practices are unprofessional and unworthy of an officer of the law charged, as is the lawyer, with the duty of aiding in the administration of justice.
Page 354 - ... such cases to his office, or to remunerate policemen, court or prison officials, physicians, hospital attaches or others who may succeed, under the guise of giving disinterested friendly advice, in influencing the criminal, the sick and the injured, the ignorant or others to seek his professional services. A duty to the public and to the profession devolves upon every member of the Bar, having knowledge of such practices upon the part of any practitioner, immediately to inform thereof to the...
Page 349 - Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Page 355 - Litigation. No lawyer is obliged to act either as adviser or advocate for every person who may wish to become his client. He has the right to decline employment. Every lawyer upon his own responsibility must decide what business he will accept as counsel, what causes he will bring into Court for plaintiffs, what cases he will contest in Court for defendants.