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... involved is a particularly good instance . On occasion Lincoln did raise points which appear to be hypertechnical , pressing a matter of purest form . Perhaps the least persuasive , most picayune technicality ever presented to the ...
... involved is a particularly good instance . On occasion Lincoln did raise points which appear to be hypertechnical , pressing a matter of purest form . Perhaps the least persuasive , most picayune technicality ever presented to the ...
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... involved , the lawyer partic- ularly must be right , and he is under a duty not to declare what the law ought to be but what it is likely to be . Nonethe- less the ultimate review is remote and there is no check but the lawyer's own ...
... involved , the lawyer partic- ularly must be right , and he is under a duty not to declare what the law ought to be but what it is likely to be . Nonethe- less the ultimate review is remote and there is no check but the lawyer's own ...
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... involved in it . Lincoln had been originally retained by eastern counsel because this case was to be tried in Illinois before the Federal District Judge there . As it happened , the case was trans- ferred to Ohio , and was tried in ...
... involved in it . Lincoln had been originally retained by eastern counsel because this case was to be tried in Illinois before the Federal District Judge there . As it happened , the case was trans- ferred to Ohio , and was tried in ...
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