A. Lincoln, Prairie LawyerAuthor makes use of the Herndon-Weik Papers, first opened to the public in 1942, and of the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection, which was not accessible until 1947, in the biography of Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer. |
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Page 89
... charged with the commission of a crime , the rules ob- taining in criminal trials did not apply , and specific charges were not necessary . To the laity , the objection which Lincoln raised may seem technical in a derogatory sense of ...
... charged with the commission of a crime , the rules ob- taining in criminal trials did not apply , and specific charges were not necessary . To the laity , the objection which Lincoln raised may seem technical in a derogatory sense of ...
Page 113
... charged . This book , entirely in Herndon's fairly good handwriting , con- tains 125 numbered cases ( 1 , 2 , 3 , etc. ) of the two - year period before Lincoln went to Congress , with some others in the back of the book , entered after ...
... charged . This book , entirely in Herndon's fairly good handwriting , con- tains 125 numbered cases ( 1 , 2 , 3 , etc. ) of the two - year period before Lincoln went to Congress , with some others in the back of the book , entered after ...
Page 215
... charges of fees , and the lawyers have reason to com- plain of you . " That evening , at the hotel , his fellow attorneys charged him with having broken one of the unwritten rules of the trade , and , after a mock trial , " fined " him ...
... charges of fees , and the lawyers have reason to com- plain of you . " That evening , at the hotel , his fellow attorneys charged him with having broken one of the unwritten rules of the trade , and , after a mock trial , " fined " him ...
Contents
Early Contacts | 3 |
The Shape of Things to Come | 21 |
Stuart Lincoln | 35 |
Copyright | |
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