Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association, Volume 18, Part 1895State Printers, 1895 - Bar associations |
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53rd Congress A. C. Hargrove action adjourn administration Alabama State Bar amended American Anniston annual meeting appointed approved Assembly Asso attachment attorney Bar Association bench bill Birmingham By-Laws Central Council Chairman character charged ciation client Committee on Legislation Congress Constitution D. S. Troy David Clopton Dawson debt debtor duty E. P. Morrissett elected Executive Committee F. G. Bromberg Goldsmith W H. C. Tompkins H. D. Clayton homestead honor Huntsville husband Jefferson county John judicial jury justice land lawyer Legislature live matter McKleroy member complained ment mittee Monroe doctrine Montgomery moral motion opinion paper party practice President principles resolution rules Secretary Selma Senate session sociation Stanford Law Library statute suggestion Supreme Court Talladega Thorington tion Treasurer trial Tuscaloosa Van de Graaff vote W. C. Fitts W. C. WARD W. L. Clay Wetumpka
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Page cxvi - 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 xix - Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble Lords the language of the noble Duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.
Page xxxii - God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands, Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office Cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie...
Page xix - I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament, as speaker of this right honourable house, as keeper of the great seal, as guardian of his majesty's conscience, as lord high chancellor of England, nay, even in that character alone in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Page xvi - Indeed it is perfectly amazing that there should be no other state of life, no other occupation, art or science, in which some method of instruction is not looked upon as requisite, except only the science of legislation, the noblest and most difficult of any. Apprenticeships are held necessary to almost every art, commercial or mechanical; a long course of reading and study must form the divine, the physician, and the practical professor of the laws ; but every man of superior fortune thinks himself...
Page xxxii - Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page cxvii - Having undertaken such defense, the lawyer is bound by all fair and honorable means, to present every defense that the law of the land permits to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law.
Page cxxiii - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : (1) the time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved and the skill requisite properly to conduct...
Page cxx - ... 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 xix - No one venerates the peerage more -than I do : but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me, not I the peerage.