 | Gleason Leonard Archer - Legal ethics - 1910 - 382 pages
...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. "The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice... | |
 | Law - 1910 - 816 pages
...the lawyer's mind that the confession is true, it is the lawyer's duty "by all fair and honourable means to present such defences as the law of the land permits." No "defences" within any just meaning of that term can be presented other than (1) that the act charged... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1302 pages
...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. The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice... | |
 | West Publishing Company - Admission to the bar - 1913 - 250 pages
...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. The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice... | |
 | Law - 1915 - 524 pages
...believes him guilty. It is his duty by all fair and honorable (or lawful) means to present such defense as the law of the land permits, to the end that no...deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law." The question is one full of interest to the thoughtful student of the law, and offers many angles of... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 564 pages
...believes him guilty. It is his duty by all fair and honourable [or lawful] means to present such defence as the law of the land permits, to the end that no...deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law."—Law Notes. TRADING WITH THE ENEMY. Whatever excuses there may have been during the early Btages... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 626 pages
...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." This is all very well as far as it goes, but there is another canon, bearing directly upon such cases,... | |
 | George Purcell Costigan - Legal ethics - 1917 - 656 pages
...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.17 * * * 15. How FAR A LAWYER MAY Go IN SUPPORTING A CLIENT'S CAUSE. Nothing operates more certainly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1196 pages
...honorable means, to present any 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 the law." In Sharswood's Professional Ethics, it is stated : "Every man, accused of an offense, has... | |
 | George William Warvelle - Law and ethics - 1920 - 282 pages
...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. The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice... | |
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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. 
