Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 16Virginia State Bar Association, 1903 - Bar associations |
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... , 1903 EDITED BY EUGENE C. MASSIE OF THE RICHMOND BAR RICHMOND : EVERETT WADDEY CO . 1903 USPARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD , JR . , UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT . 117707.4415 Members Registered at the Fifteenth .Franklin . Covington Wise REPORT.
... , 1903 EDITED BY EUGENE C. MASSIE OF THE RICHMOND BAR RICHMOND : EVERETT WADDEY CO . 1903 USPARY OF THE LELAND STANFORD , JR . , UNIVERSITY LAW DEPARTMENT . 117707.4415 Members Registered at the Fifteenth .Franklin . Covington Wise REPORT.
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Virginia State Bar Association. Our own temptation is peculiarly strong , in that the nobility of our profession , the American Bar Association , is about to cast over us the charm of its presence . Under such circum- stances , we need ...
Virginia State Bar Association. Our own temptation is peculiarly strong , in that the nobility of our profession , the American Bar Association , is about to cast over us the charm of its presence . Under such circum- stances , we need ...
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... Association is in sound financial condition , however , and we have no outstanding obli- gations . We are the recipients during the year of volumes from other Bar Associations , which are placed in our library ; but recently the Association ...
... Association is in sound financial condition , however , and we have no outstanding obli- gations . We are the recipients during the year of volumes from other Bar Associations , which are placed in our library ; but recently the Association ...
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Virginia State Bar Association. The President : Next is the report of the Committee on Ad- missions . Mr. E. E. Stickley , of Woodstock , Chairman , read the first report of the Committee on Admissions . ( See Report at end of Minutes ...
Virginia State Bar Association. The President : Next is the report of the Committee on Ad- missions . Mr. E. E. Stickley , of Woodstock , Chairman , read the first report of the Committee on Admissions . ( See Report at end of Minutes ...
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Virginia State Bar Association. better than we are , and wiser too , but God in His omnipotence- I say it with all reverence - has never made better ones , or fairer ones either , than we have in Virginia and North Carolina . And as to ...
Virginia State Bar Association. better than we are , and wiser too , but God in His omnipotence- I say it with all reverence - has never made better ones , or fairer ones either , than we have in Virginia and North Carolina . And as to ...
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Page 390 - ... the lawyer must be allowed to judge. In such matters no client has a right to demand that his counsel shall be illiberal, or that he do anything therein repugnant to his own sense of honor and propriety.
Page 205 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during •which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 251 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks.
Page 388 - 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 389 - A lawyer openly, and in his true character may render professional services before legislative or other bodies, regarding proposed legislation and in advocacy of claims before departments of government, upon the same principles of ethics which justify his appearance before the Courts...
Page 318 - Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes...
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Page 191 - State courts have concurrent jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution, laws and treaties of the United States...
Page 386 - 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 280 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.