Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association, Volume 36, Part 1913State Printers, 1913 - Bar associations |
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... interests and welfare of the Association are very dear to me , and I am sending you personally my best wishes for a pleasant and successful meeting , which I am sure you will have . With cordial regards to yourself , and a heartfelt ...
... interests and welfare of the Association are very dear to me , and I am sending you personally my best wishes for a pleasant and successful meeting , which I am sure you will have . With cordial regards to yourself , and a heartfelt ...
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... interest of the profession . Our efforts should be given a wider range . They should encompass the public weal . The welfare of society should be our main , if not our sole aim . How can we best serve the public ? In what , if at all ...
... interest of the profession . Our efforts should be given a wider range . They should encompass the public weal . The welfare of society should be our main , if not our sole aim . How can we best serve the public ? In what , if at all ...
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... interest in the case will stimulate them to a thorough performance of the duty of abstracting the record , while the impending scrutiny of their adversaries will tend to make them accurate and careful . The presence of the abstract will ...
... interest in the case will stimulate them to a thorough performance of the duty of abstracting the record , while the impending scrutiny of their adversaries will tend to make them accurate and careful . The presence of the abstract will ...
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... interest the profession of the State in the enactment of this law . I suggest that the sense of the Association be obtained , and if favorable to the pas- sage of the bill that Senators and Members of the House of Re- presentatives from ...
... interest the profession of the State in the enactment of this law . I suggest that the sense of the Association be obtained , and if favorable to the pas- sage of the bill that Senators and Members of the House of Re- presentatives from ...
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... interest may lag in reforming the chancery side . He suggests that the practice and procedure in the latter court is so fully regulated by law that legislation may be necessary to obtain what is needed . The following are some of the ...
... interest may lag in reforming the chancery side . He suggests that the practice and procedure in the latter court is so fully regulated by law that legislation may be necessary to obtain what is needed . The following are some of the ...
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act requiring admission adopted Alabama State Bar amended American Bar Association Anniston annual meeting appointed Asso attorney Bar Association bill of exceptions Birmingham Birmingham Brickell brief cause Central Council Chairman charge Circuit Court clerk client Code Committee on Legislation Common Law copy counsel Court of Appeals criminal David Clopton Demopolis duty E. P. Morrissett elected EMMET O'NEAL enactment error examination Executive Committee filed Fort Morgan Goodwater graduates H. C. Semple HANNIS TAYLOR Huntsville John London Jones Judge judgment judicial July jury justice Law School lawyers matter ment Montgomery Montgomery motion was carried move order of business party person pleading practice present procedure proceedings profession Reese Reform resolution S. D. Weakley Secretary and Treasurer Selma statute Supreme Court thereof Thos tion transcript trial court Troy Tuscaloosa Tuscumbia Vice Presidents W. L. Bragg W. S. Thorington Watts
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Page 87 - That no judgment shall be set aside or reversed or new trial granted by any court of the United States in any case, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure, unless, in the opinion of the court to which application is made, after an examination of the entire cause, it shall appear that the error complained of has injuriously affected the substantial rights of the parties.
Page 153 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which...
Page 155 - Go in Supporting a Client's Cause. 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 156 - Lawyers should expose without fear or favor before the proper tribunals corrupt or dishonest conduct in the profession, and should accept without hesitation employment against a member of the Bar who has wronged his client. The counsel upon the trial of a cause in which perjury has been committed owe it to the profession and to the public to bring the matter to the knowledge of the prosecuting authorities.
Page 129 - 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 164 - When Counsel for an Indigent Prisoner. A lawyer assigned as counsel for an indigent prisoner ought not to ask to be excused for any trivial reason, and should always exert his best efforts in his behalf.
Page 129 - The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that God's world will fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less.
Page 159 - ... 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...
Page 156 - A lawyer should not communicate or argue privately with the judge as to the merits of a pending cause, and he deserves rebuke and denunciation for any device or attempt to gain from a judge special personal consideration or favor.
Page 156 - But it is steadfastly to be borne in mind that the great trust of the lawyer is to be performed within and not without the bounds of the law. The office of attorney does not permit, much less does it demand of him for any client, violation of law or any manner of fraud or chicane. He must obey his own conscience and not that of his client 16.