UPON THE LAW OF JUDICIAL WRITS AND PROCESS IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES THE SUFFICIENCY, VALIDITY, AMENDMENT AND BY WILLIAM A. ALDERSON OF THE NEW YORK BAR NEW YORK YORK BAKER, VOORHIS AND COMPANY Copy 2. ΤΟ THE LAWYER, WHOEVER AND WHEREVER HE MAY BE, THIS TREATISE IS SINCERELY INSCRIBED, APPRECIATING THAT HE MERITS THE TRIBUTE UTTERED BY THAT EMINENT JURIST, WHOSE NAME IT IS A PLEASURE HERE TO MENTION, THUS ELOQUENTLY EXPRESSED ON A MEMORABLE OCCASION: "While it is cheap wit for many to say sneering things of our profession, yet, if you strike from Anglo-Saxon history the thoughts and deeds of her lawyers you rob it of more than half its glory. Blot from American society to-day the lawyer with all the work that he does and all the power that he exerts, and you leave society as dry and shifting as the sands that sweep over Sahara. For the mystic force that binds our civilization together and makes possible its successes and glories in the law, and they who minister at its shrine and keep alive its sacred fires, are you and I and that vast multitude of our co-workers who boast no higher title than that of lawyer." |