Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 14Virginia State Bar Association, 1901 - Bar associations |
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... appearing separately in three or four different names . My distinguished friend , Mr. Parrish , took hold of some of those large tracts down there , and I think that one of his cases shows that a good title makes property valuable ...
... appearing separately in three or four different names . My distinguished friend , Mr. Parrish , took hold of some of those large tracts down there , and I think that one of his cases shows that a good title makes property valuable ...
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... appear and contest the title , or claim the title . Every- thing is done that can be done to bring the proper owner before the court . If he does not appear before the court , it is his fault or his misfortune , as the case may be ; but ...
... appear and contest the title , or claim the title . Every- thing is done that can be done to bring the proper owner before the court . If he does not appear before the court , it is his fault or his misfortune , as the case may be ; but ...
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... appears by the record to have any shadow of claim to the land ; and , after that is done , if it is thought that there are probably others whose names are unknown , you are required to have an order of publication . Hence it is not con ...
... appears by the record to have any shadow of claim to the land ; and , after that is done , if it is thought that there are probably others whose names are unknown , you are required to have an order of publication . Hence it is not con ...
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... appear before the Consti- tutional Convention and to ask the Convention to embody in the Constitution such a provision , if one be necessary , as will enable the Legislature to deal with this subject , if , in the wisdom of the ...
... appear before the Consti- tutional Convention and to ask the Convention to embody in the Constitution such a provision , if one be necessary , as will enable the Legislature to deal with this subject , if , in the wisdom of the ...
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... appear before the proper committee of the Constitutional Convention and request the in- sertion in the proposed Constitution of such provision , if any , as may be necessary to enable the Legislature to establish the Torrens System of ...
... appear before the proper committee of the Constitutional Convention and request the in- sertion in the proposed Constitution of such provision , if any , as may be necessary to enable the Legislature to establish the Torrens System of ...
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admission adopted amendment American annual meeting applicant appointed attorney Bar Association Reports Bedford City Big Stone Gap bill By-Laws certificate chairman character CHARLES Charlottesville Chief Justice Marshall Christiansburg Circuit citizen City of Richmond client Committee on Grievances Commonwealth Congress Constitution counsel Court of Appeals crime criminals Culpeper death decision deed duty elected Executive Committee GEORGE GEORGE W Harrisonburg Henry honor Horace Gray JAMES John Marshall Judge Riely judicial July jurisdiction jury lawyer legislative Legislature Lexington Lile Lynchburg Massachusetts Massie matter ment Newport Norfolk opinion owner paper Parrish persons Petersburg practice present President prison proceedings profession question R. S. Thomas real estate Richmond Roanoke rule Secretary session statute Staunton Supreme Court Tazewell tion Torrens System trial United University of Virginia Virginia State Bar Volume vote Warrenton Washington White Sulphur Springs WILLIAM Winchester
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Page 384 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 364 - Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 318 - The lawyer owes entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, to the end that nothing be taken or be withheld from him.
Page 368 - A final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Page 320 - 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 212 - ... free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself ? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth.
Page 384 - This course is founded on the principle, supposed to be universally recognized, that the judicial department of every government, where such department exists, is the appropriate organ for construing the legislative acts of that government.
Page 317 - Courts and judicial officers, in the rightful exercise of their functions, should always receive the support and countenance of attorneys against unjust criticism and popular clamor ; and it is an attorney's duty to give them his moral support in all proper ways, and particularly by setting a good example in his own person of obedience to law, 5.
Page 224 - The right to take property by devise or descent is the creature of the law, and not a natural right — a privilege, and therefore the authority which confers it may impose conditions upon it.
Page 198 - This can only be obviated by adhering to the rule that constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. A close and literal construction deprives them of half their efficacy, and leads to gradual depreciation of the right, as if it consisted more in sound than in substance. It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon.