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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... governor North Carolina ever had , Governor Drummond , one of your governors did us the honor to hang - and the two States have hung together ever since . Drummond , after the expiration of his office , moved over here and got into some ...
... governor North Carolina ever had , Governor Drummond , one of your governors did us the honor to hang - and the two States have hung together ever since . Drummond , after the expiration of his office , moved over here and got into some ...
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... Governor , but you will note that the historic remark of a most friendly nature , by one of our later Governors , was made by him to the Governor of the State south of us . There are no States in the whole Union , whose people have been ...
... Governor , but you will note that the historic remark of a most friendly nature , by one of our later Governors , was made by him to the Governor of the State south of us . There are no States in the whole Union , whose people have been ...
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... Governor changing the penitentiary temporarily into a binding twine factory . And the State of Texas , having also a Governor in sympathy with the masses , did put in force her statutes which ran some of the trusts , among them the ...
... Governor changing the penitentiary temporarily into a binding twine factory . And the State of Texas , having also a Governor in sympathy with the masses , did put in force her statutes which ran some of the trusts , among them the ...
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... Governor of Louisiana , suggesting , with much misgiving , the experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes . Said he : 17 Speech delivered by Charles Sumner on September 14th , 1865 , before the Republi- can State ...
... Governor of Louisiana , suggesting , with much misgiving , the experiment of granting suffrage to a few selected negroes . Said he : 17 Speech delivered by Charles Sumner on September 14th , 1865 , before the Republi- can State ...
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... Governor Hahn , nor the Reconstruction Conven- tion which he assembled , saw fit to adopt this suggestion . In fact , negro suffrage , upon the political sky of 1864 , was a cloud which cannot be said to have been even as large as a ...
... Governor Hahn , nor the Reconstruction Conven- tion which he assembled , saw fit to adopt this suggestion . In fact , negro suffrage , upon the political sky of 1864 , was a cloud which cannot be said to have been even as large as a ...
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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...
Page 140 - Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any meeting of the Association...
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.