Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar Association, Volume 26State Printers, 1903 |
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... Congress . It is quite evident that a number of Senators would not have voted for the ratification of the Treaty with out affording to the Congress the opportunity of dealing with it as a revenue measure , and there was also a large ...
... Congress . It is quite evident that a number of Senators would not have voted for the ratification of the Treaty with out affording to the Congress the opportunity of dealing with it as a revenue measure , and there was also a large ...
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... Congress is constantly importuned for the creation of new divisions and the location of courts at : dditional points . This is demanded as a matter of convenience . The effort to curtail the influence of these courts has only resulted ...
... Congress is constantly importuned for the creation of new divisions and the location of courts at : dditional points . This is demanded as a matter of convenience . The effort to curtail the influence of these courts has only resulted ...
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... Congress of March 2 , 1893 , entitled " An Act for the Suppression of Lottery Traffic through National and Inter - state Commerce and the Postal Service , subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the United States . " The defendant was ...
... Congress of March 2 , 1893 , entitled " An Act for the Suppression of Lottery Traffic through National and Inter - state Commerce and the Postal Service , subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the United States . " The defendant was ...
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... Congress , and made aggressive war upon it , as an infringement of civil liberty , violating the Fed- eral Constitution . The statute was maintained , as a proper exercise of the power to regulate inter - state commerce . This case is ...
... Congress , and made aggressive war upon it , as an infringement of civil liberty , violating the Fed- eral Constitution . The statute was maintained , as a proper exercise of the power to regulate inter - state commerce . This case is ...
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... Congress Concurrent jurisdiction was evidently in- tended , but section 23 ( b ) provides : " Suits by Trustees shall only be brought or prosecuted in the courts where the bank- rupt , whose estate is being administered by such trustee ...
... Congress Concurrent jurisdiction was evidently in- tended , but section 23 ( b ) provides : " Suits by Trustees shall only be brought or prosecuted in the courts where the bank- rupt , whose estate is being administered by such trustee ...
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Page 200 - Go in Supporting a Client's Cause Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Page 238 - 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. If the extreme circumstances of a particular case justify a statement to the public, it is unprofessional to make it anonymously. An ex parte reference to the facts should not go beyond quotation from the records and papers on file in the court; but even in extreme...
Page 197 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which...
Page 251 - ... interrogatories and the like, 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.
Page 192 - We doubt very much whether any action of a State not directed, by way of discrimination, against the negroes as a class, or on account of their race, will ever be held to come within the purview of this provision.
Page 80 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, " We, the People," instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states.
Page 241 - TO CONTROL THE INCIDENTS OF THE TRIAL As to incidental matters pending the trial, not affecting the merits of the cause, or working substantial prejudice to the rights of the client, such as forcing the opposite lawyer to trial when he is under affliction or bereavement; forcing the trial on a particular day to the injury of the opposite lawyer when no harm will result from a trial at a different time; agreeing to an extension of time for signing a bill of exceptions...
Page 201 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 95 - ... fetter and degrade the state governments by subjecting them to the control of Congress, in the exercise of powers heretofore universally conceded to them of the most ordinary and fundamental character ; when in fact it radically changes the whole theory of the relations of the state and Federal Governments to each other and of both these governments to the people...
Page 244 - In determining the amount of the fee, it is proper to consider : (1) the time and labor required...