Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Band 19Virginia State Bar Association, 1906 |
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Accomac Active members adopted Albemarle Alexandria amendment American annual meeting appointed Arnold Asso August Bar Association Reports Bedford City Big Stone Gap bill Bristol By-Laws called Chairman CHARLES Charles Triplett O'Ferrall Charlottesville Chief Justice Christiansburg ciation Circuit Judge client Clifton Forge Committee on Admissions Commonwealth's Attor Commonwealth's Attorney Congress Constitution Convention Covington Culpeper duty elected Executive Committee Garrett gentlemen GEORGE ginia GORDON Harrisonburg HENRY honor Honorary members Hot Springs JAMES Jonesville Judge Corporation Court judicial jury lawyers legislation Legislature Lexington Lynchburg Major Massie matter ment mittee nation Newport Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk O'Ferrall OTHO F papers Paulding person PHLEGAR Portsmouth present President proceedings Richmond Richmond Richmond Roanoke ROBERT ROBERTSON Secretary and Treasurer Senate session Staunton STICKLEY Suffolk Supreme Court Tazewell THOMAS tion United Virginia State Bar Volume XI vote Warrenton Washington West Virginia WILLIAM Wytheville York
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Seite 269 - ... the lawyer must be allowed to judge. In such matters no client has a right to demand that his counsel shall be illiberal, or that he do anything therein repugnant to his own sense of honor and propriety.
Seite 139 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the national Government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Seite 267 - It is disreputable to hunt up defects in titles or other causes of action and inform thereof in order to be employed to bring suit, or to breed litigation by seeking out those with claims for personal injuries or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients...
Seite 229 - ... others should reproach him, on the supposition of my having conceived myself obliged, by his instructions, to run the risk I did. I would not, for the world, leave a sting in his mind that should embitter his future days.
Seite 266 - Newspaper publications by a lawyer as to pending or anticipated litigation may interfere with a fair trial in the courts and otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice. Generally they are to be condemned.
Seite 213 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, And the travellers walked through byways. The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
Seite 265 - But it is steadfastly to be borne in mind that the great trust of the lawyer is to be performed within and not without the bounds of the law. The office of attorney does not permit, much less does it demand of him for any client, violation of law or any manner of fraud or chicane. He must obey his own conscience and not that of his client 16.
Seite 266 - When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as the attestation or custody of an instrument and the like, he should leave the trial of the case to other counsel. Except when essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client.
Seite 143 - ... a National Government, and the only government in this country that has the character of nationality. It is invested with power over all the foreign relations of the country, war, peace, and negotiations and intercourse with other nations; all of which are forbidden to the state governments.
Seite 145 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.