Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association, Volume 17Maryland State Bar Association, 1912 |
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... Court of Appeals , which office I continued to fill until the year 1851 , when the Judiciary was remodeled and made elective by the new Constitution . I was an active member of the Con-- vention of 1850 to remodel the Constitution and ...
... Court of Appeals , which office I continued to fill until the year 1851 , when the Judiciary was remodeled and made elective by the new Constitution . I was an active member of the Con-- vention of 1850 to remodel the Constitution and ...
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... Court of Appeals shows that he was admitted in that Court June 12 , 1809 , and argued his first case there at June term , 1810 , the case of Wheatley vs. Wallis , 3rd H. & J. 1 , in which he represented the plaintiff in an action of ...
... Court of Appeals shows that he was admitted in that Court June 12 , 1809 , and argued his first case there at June term , 1810 , the case of Wheatley vs. Wallis , 3rd H. & J. 1 , in which he represented the plaintiff in an action of ...
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... Courts of the then 6th and 7th Judicial Circuits , and despite his advanced years was a prominent figure at the trial table . He did not resume his prominence in the number of his cases in the Court of Appeals , though he argued eleven ...
... Courts of the then 6th and 7th Judicial Circuits , and despite his advanced years was a prominent figure at the trial table . He did not resume his prominence in the number of his cases in the Court of Appeals , though he argued eleven ...
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... Court of Appeals . The law dockets of the Circuit Court for Harford County show that in 1824 , three years after his admission , he appeared in 98 out of 237 trials , in 1825 in 142 out of 218 ; in 1826 , in 139 out of 202 ; in 1859 ...
... Court of Appeals . The law dockets of the Circuit Court for Harford County show that in 1824 , three years after his admission , he appeared in 98 out of 237 trials , in 1825 in 142 out of 218 ; in 1826 , in 139 out of 202 ; in 1859 ...
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... Court of Appeals that , notwithstanding it was not subject to re- view by that Court , it was published in 9th G. & J. , and has ever since been cited as the highest authority for the principles there enunciated , not only in Maryland ...
... Court of Appeals that , notwithstanding it was not subject to re- view by that Court , it was published in 9th G. & J. , and has ever since been cited as the highest authority for the principles there enunciated , not only in Maryland ...
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Page 187 - A person has no property, no vested interest, in any rule of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process ; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim, of the legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations. Indeed, the great office of statutes is to remedy defects in the common law...
Page 191 - ... were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.
Page 135 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 125 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Page 193 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 186 - When our constitutions were adopted it was the law of the land that no man who was without fault or negligence could be held liable in damages for injuries sustained by another.
Page 128 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 317 - Council shall hold their office for one year from the date of their election, and until their successors are elected.
Page 125 - Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 135 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.