 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1823 - 588 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. LXX. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned)... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 472 pages
...advance justice. He adhered to that clause of Mr. Locke's fundamental constitution, which makes it " a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; and wished that the lawyers, when necessary to justice, should be provided with salaries at the public... | |
 | François-Xavier Martin - Constitutional history - 1829 - 472 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. 70. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned)... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...unnecessary litigation, it was (with a simplicity, which at this time may excite a smile) provided, that " it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; " and that " since multiplicity of comments, as well as of laws, have great inconveniences, and serve only to... | |
 | Bartholomew Rivers Carroll - Florida - 1836 - 588 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. LXX. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than a cousin-german to the party... | |
 | South Carolina - Law - 1836 - 476 pages
...freehold. In the Proprietor's courts, no man shall be a juryman under five hundred awes of freehold. ?0th. It shall be a base and vile thing, to plead for money, or reward ; nor shall any one, (except he be a near kinsman, nor farther off' than cousin german to the party... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 260 pages
...advance justice. He adhered to that clause of Mr. Locke's fundamental constitution, which makes it " a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward;" and wished that the lawyers, when necessary to justice, should be provided with salaries at the public... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1848 - 424 pages
...advance justice. He adhered to that clause of Mr. Locke's fundamental constitution, which makes it "a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward;" and wished that the lawyers, when necessary to justice, should be provided with salaries at the public... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...regarded. By the fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), drawn np by John Locke, it was declared " to be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward" in any of the courts of law. One of the complaints of the Assembly against Gov. Dobbs, in 1760, was... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1858 - 624 pages
...not required to be unanimous in their verdict; a majority might find a verdict. It was declared to " be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ;" and no one, unless he were a near kinsman, and not further removed in relationship than a cousin-german,... | |
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It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be permitted to plead another man's cause, till, before the judge in open court,... 
