 | Law - 1911 - 754 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 - 1906 - 688 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 466 pages
...territory; declaring thereby that no person therein should ever be enslaved, except for crime ; or be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law and the judgment of his peers ; nor of his property the product of his toil, without just compensation.... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1904 - 186 pages
...knows or believes him guilty. It is his duty by all fair and lawful means to present such defenses as the law of the land permits, to the end that no one may be deprived of his life or liberty but by due process of law. 14. An attorney must decline in a civil cause to conduct... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - Bar associations - 1909 - 1020 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...territory; declaring thereby that no person therein should ever be enslaved, except for crime ; or be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law and the judgment of his peers ; nor of his property the product of his toil, without just compensation.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1907 - 548 pages
...criminal offence because he knows or believes him guilty. It is his duty by all fair and honourable means to present such defences as the law of the land...deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law." As to the rule itself no doubt is possible. This does not deny that an advocate who knows or strongly... | |
 | American Bar Association. Committee to Draft Canons of Professional Ethics - 1908 - 140 pages
...substitute the following: (CANON 14— Continued.) guilty, and he has the right by all fair and honorable means to present such defences as the law of the land...deprived of life or liberty but by due process of law." The council decided to recommend that the canon be in the following form : "A lawyer may with propriety... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 386 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... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 1138 pages
...acquittal by anything but fair means. The object is, as stated in the canon, " to the end that no person may be deprived of life or liberty, but by due process of law." Any person accused of crime has the right, and this canon emphasizes this proposition, to have a fair... | |
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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. 
