 Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good...  American Legal News - Page 151921Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1910 - 548 pages
...Lincoln has said : "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser...peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of b?ing a good man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...[never 20 dried], never froze, never slept, never rested. NOTES ON THE PRACTICE OF LAW (1850) . . . Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior 25 opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation.... | |
 | Cheesman Abiah Herrick - Education - 1911 - 220 pages
..."discourage litigation." Said he, " Point out how nominal winners are often the real losers." And again, "As a peacemaker, the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man." He advised such a " moral tone " in the law that bad men would be driven out of the profession. Codes... | |
 | Helen Nicolay - 1912 - 444 pages
...lecture to law students, were found among his papers. 90 " Discourage litigation," said one of these. " Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." Yet he occasionally allowed himself the luxury of offering his... | |
 | Frederick Trevor Hill - Lawyers - 1912 - 368 pages
...the courts, set his face against such practice. "Discourage litigation" was his advice to lawyers. "Persuade your neighbors to compromise •whenever...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1302 pages
...performed, is the lawyer's glory. This is equally true of the Bench and of the Bar."— EDWARD G. RYAN. " Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 474 pages
...assembly of young men of that profession and in the course of his remarks gave them this bit of advice : "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. "Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than... | |
 | Arnold Guyot Cameron - Torrens system - 1915 - 144 pages
...stated in the words of Abraham Lincoln, whose words seem as if prophetic of subsequent conditions : — Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, ex- Abraham penses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the Lincoln and ii i . . .. • i • legal... | |
 | Law - 1912 - 446 pages
...Who's been tamperin' wi' the law sin' last year?" — Ex. On the Profession of Law. By Abraham Lincoln. Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to...Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior... | |
 | Harlan Fiske Stone - Law - 1915 - 262 pages
...your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often the real loser in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As...a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity to be a good man. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.... | |
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