| William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 506 pages
...moft for the fake of gaining influence : and fo likewife it is eftablifhed with us c, that a counfel can maintain no action for his fees •, which are given, not as locatio vel tonducHo, but as quiddam honorarium ; not as a falary or hire, but as a mcr>.gratuity, which a counfellor... | |
| Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1822 - 600 pages
...services, and trusts to the gratitude of his client for reward. In the language of Blackstone, «« a counsel can maintain no action for his fees, which...not as a salary, or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand, without doing wrong to his reputation." The opinion of Bloodstone,... | |
| Nathan Dane - Law - 1823 - 728 pages
...and so likewise it is established with us," (cites CH. 31. Davis, Pref. 22, and 1 Ch. R. 38,) " that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees; which...; not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand without doing wrong to his reputation," cites Davis 23 ; and AD 47,... | |
| Nathan Dane - Law - 1823 - 722 pages
...and so likewise it is established with us," (cites CH. 31. Davis, Pref. 22, and 1 Ch. R. 38,) " that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees ; which are given not as locatio vrl conductio, but as quiddam honorarium ; not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...merely, or at most for the sake of gaining influence: and so likewise it is established with us, that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees ; which are given, not as lacatio vel conductio, but as quiddam honorarium ; not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity,... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 568 pages
...merely, or at most for the sake of gaining influence ; and so likewise it is established with usc, that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees ; which...,• not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand without doing wrong to his reputationd: as is also laid down with... | |
| Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...merely, or at most for the sake of gaining influence : and so likewise it is established with us, that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees ; which are given as a mere gratuity and not as a salary or hire, and which a counsellor cannot demand without injuring... | |
| Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 772 pages
...imprisonment for a year and a day, and perpetual silence in the courts. Raym. 376. 3 131. Com. 29. Lastly, a counsel can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but aa a mere gratuity. Moorv. Jiow, Davis, 22. 1 Ch. Rep. 38. — [Ed.] (D) With... | |
| William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...honor merely, or, at most, for the sake of gaining influence ; and so it is established with us, that a counsel can maintain no action for his fees which are given, not as a salary or hire, but ES a mere gratuity, which a counsellor cannot demand without doing wrong to his... | |
| John Jane Smith Wharton - Law - 1848 - 726 pages
...himself the protection and defence of clients. They are termed jurisconsulti and licentiati in jure. A counsel can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but as a mere gratuity, which a barrister cannot demand without doing wrong to his... | |
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