Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association, Volume 17Maryland State Bar Association, 1912 |
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... considered a certainty . It was declined on account of the permanent ill health of my then widowed mother , whose situation required my con- stant personal attention . In 1822 , I was made a member of the State Senate , against my ...
... considered a certainty . It was declined on account of the permanent ill health of my then widowed mother , whose situation required my con- stant personal attention . In 1822 , I was made a member of the State Senate , against my ...
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... considered ; when the determination and pertinacity with which he fought there , as it were " against the stars in their courses , " is remembered , one marvels that he should have retained , as he did , at the close of that protracted ...
... considered ; when the determination and pertinacity with which he fought there , as it were " against the stars in their courses , " is remembered , one marvels that he should have retained , as he did , at the close of that protracted ...
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... considered a homely man , though the intellectu- ality which shone in his keen eyes , and in the fine play of his rugged features , dominated every other impression , and if one might judge from a fine portrait , painted when he was in ...
... considered a homely man , though the intellectu- ality which shone in his keen eyes , and in the fine play of his rugged features , dominated every other impression , and if one might judge from a fine portrait , painted when he was in ...
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... considered for appointment as his suc- cessor , but it was finally otherwise determined . That he would have been an able and just judge is certain , but his temperament and talents were essentially controversial , and it may be a ...
... considered for appointment as his suc- cessor , but it was finally otherwise determined . That he would have been an able and just judge is certain , but his temperament and talents were essentially controversial , and it may be a ...
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... BAR ASSOCIATION . To the President and Members of the Maryland State Bar Association : Your Committee respectfully report : I. They have considered a Bill entitled " An Act 1912 ] 39 Report of Committee on Laws . AFTERNOON SESSION ...
... BAR ASSOCIATION . To the President and Members of the Maryland State Bar Association : Your Committee respectfully report : I. They have considered a Bill entitled " An Act 1912 ] 39 Report of Committee on Laws . AFTERNOON SESSION ...
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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.