The Law Magazine and Law Review: Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, Volumes 14-15Butterworths, 1863 - Law |
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... profession , of highly respectable connexions , and the prospect of almost certain success in their business of law - agents . They have worked for the poor woman it is said , not a little from motives of charity , for she and her ...
... profession , of highly respectable connexions , and the prospect of almost certain success in their business of law - agents . They have worked for the poor woman it is said , not a little from motives of charity , for she and her ...
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... profession , or he would not hold the position he does , had , in a question of life and death , neither the courage nor the candour to admit many of the circumstances favourable to the prisoner as an English counsel for the Crown would ...
... profession , or he would not hold the position he does , had , in a question of life and death , neither the courage nor the candour to admit many of the circumstances favourable to the prisoner as an English counsel for the Crown would ...
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... profession in town and country , that much crude and unwise legislation , hurtful alike to the profession and the public , would have been avoided , if the experience and rights of the profession had been regarded and maintained . They ...
... profession in town and country , that much crude and unwise legislation , hurtful alike to the profession and the public , would have been avoided , if the experience and rights of the profession had been regarded and maintained . They ...
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... profession is liable is this , that we are too much isolated from each other , and that we act too independently . I believe that these are the great causes of our weakness as a body , and that we must seek in collective and co ...
... profession is liable is this , that we are too much isolated from each other , and that we act too independently . I believe that these are the great causes of our weakness as a body , and that we must seek in collective and co ...
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... Profession , their Clients , and the Public , " by Mr. G. J. Johnson , of Birmingham , a solicitor , who holds the appoint- ment of Professor of Law at Queen's College in that town . The following extracts will show the style and ...
... Profession , their Clients , and the Public , " by Mr. G. J. Johnson , of Birmingham , a solicitor , who holds the appoint- ment of Professor of Law at Queen's College in that town . The following extracts will show the style and ...
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Page 337 - And we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by the said confederation are submitted to them : And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 337 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 337 - To all to whom these presents shall come, we the undersigned delegates of the states affixed to our names send greeting: WHEREAS the delegates of the United States of America...
Page 216 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 337 - Ye, that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and every of the said Articles of confederation and...
Page 196 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 338 - ... the transcendent law of nature and of nature's God, which declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
Page 137 - When Justinian ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found; and the judges, poor in the midst of riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.
Page 131 - MACKENZIE. Studies in Roman Law. With Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord MACKENZIE, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.
Page 214 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.