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... reason for it originally , that reason has long ago ceased to exist , and we ought to come up to modern regulations on that subject . Frequently I have been embarrassed in my practice by , for instance , receiving a prom- issory note ...
... reason for it originally , that reason has long ago ceased to exist , and we ought to come up to modern regulations on that subject . Frequently I have been embarrassed in my practice by , for instance , receiving a prom- issory note ...
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... reason for them may not be so clear . In the writer's experience the point has been made that a sale of land by an executor under a foreign will cannot be law- fully made except upon compliance with Section 3524 , notwith- standing the ...
... reason for them may not be so clear . In the writer's experience the point has been made that a sale of land by an executor under a foreign will cannot be law- fully made except upon compliance with Section 3524 , notwith- standing the ...
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... reason for confining the provisions of this bill to the territory of the United States . This bill carries with it two ideas , one to provide for the execution of the will by the executor named in the will , and the other to make him ...
... reason for confining the provisions of this bill to the territory of the United States . This bill carries with it two ideas , one to provide for the execution of the will by the executor named in the will , and the other to make him ...
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... reason of some irregularity not in accord with our statutes . Mr. Smith's motion was then duly seconded and carried . Mr. Alex W. Smith ( Atlanta ) : I now move the adoption of Section 3 as it stands . That provides that an executor ...
... reason of some irregularity not in accord with our statutes . Mr. Smith's motion was then duly seconded and carried . Mr. Alex W. Smith ( Atlanta ) : I now move the adoption of Section 3 as it stands . That provides that an executor ...
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... reason for this is that magistrates frequently issue attachments now on straw bonds , and the purpose of this amendment is to put the power to issue attachments in sums in excess of $ 100.00 in judges of courts of record . The language ...
... reason for this is that magistrates frequently issue attachments now on straw bonds , and the purpose of this amendment is to put the power to issue attachments in sums in excess of $ 100.00 in judges of courts of record . The language ...
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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...