Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, Volume 25, Part 1908Georgia Bar Association, 1908 - Bar associations List of members in each volume. |
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... interest is in the loan . They die , and executors are appointed in distant States , and it is a difficult thing at times to get a free , clear , good title out of the testator into a purchaser , by reason of some irregularity not in ...
... interest is in the loan . They die , and executors are appointed in distant States , and it is a difficult thing at times to get a free , clear , good title out of the testator into a purchaser , by reason of some irregularity not in ...
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... interest in it . Instead of being members pro tem . they ought to be mem- bers interested all the time . Now , we ... interests for years ? If the individual members of those local associations wish to affiliate with the Georgia Bar ...
... interest in it . Instead of being members pro tem . they ought to be mem- bers interested all the time . Now , we ... interests for years ? If the individual members of those local associations wish to affiliate with the Georgia Bar ...
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... interest . Now , I was taken so umch by surprise in this matter that I couldn't talk , and I would be very much pleased indeed to hear from some of our judges . They can speak their own views . When a judge talks , his words weigh ...
... interest . Now , I was taken so umch by surprise in this matter that I couldn't talk , and I would be very much pleased indeed to hear from some of our judges . They can speak their own views . When a judge talks , his words weigh ...
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Georgia Bar Association. better express our interest in our profession and in our State than by coming regularly to these meetings , and taking active part in them . ( Applause . ) Mr. B. F. Abbott ( Atlanta ) : Do I understand that the ...
Georgia Bar Association. better express our interest in our profession and in our State than by coming regularly to these meetings , and taking active part in them . ( Applause . ) Mr. B. F. Abbott ( Atlanta ) : Do I understand that the ...
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... interests and prosperity of this State . " It will be noted that the word " my " is used . It makes it a very personal thing with the legislator . It does not mean the judgment of his party , or of his constituents , but his own in ...
... interests and prosperity of this State . " It will be noted that the word " my " is used . It makes it a very personal thing with the legislator . It does not mean the judgment of his party , or of his constituents , but his own in ...
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Page 145 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the Constitution ; if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably...
Page 250 - 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.
Page 74 - 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.
Page 247 - There is certainly, without any exception, no profession in which so many temptations beset the path to swerve from the line of strict integrity ; in which so many delicate and difficult questions of duty are constantly arising.
Page 250 - Lawyers should expose without fear or favor before the proper tribunals corrupt or dishonest conduct in the profession, and should accept without hesitation employment against a member of the Bar who has wronged his client. The counsel upon the trial of a cause in which perjury has been committed owe it to the profession and to the public to bring the matter to the knowledge of the prosecuting authorities.
Page 76 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the 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...
Page 114 - The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
Page 187 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 195 - An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes...
Page 198 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...