Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association, Volume 42E.C. Markley & Son, 1917 - Bar associations |
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... Chairman's Address - Robert H. Parkinson 593 Paper by John P. Bartlett 604 Proceedings of the Judicial Section 610 Address by Boris A. Bakhmetieff 615 Address by Warren Gard ... 632 Proceedings of Comparative Law Bureau 645 Address of ...
... Chairman's Address - Robert H. Parkinson 593 Paper by John P. Bartlett 604 Proceedings of the Judicial Section 610 Address by Boris A. Bakhmetieff 615 Address by Warren Gard ... 632 Proceedings of Comparative Law Bureau 645 Address of ...
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... Chairman . Lucien Hugh Alexander , Pennsylvania , Secretary . David J. Brewer , District of Columbia . Frederick V. Brown , Minnesota . J. M. Dickinson , Illinois . Franklin Ferriss , Missouri . William Wirt Howe , Louisiana . Thomas H ...
... Chairman . Lucien Hugh Alexander , Pennsylvania , Secretary . David J. Brewer , District of Columbia . Frederick V. Brown , Minnesota . J. M. Dickinson , Illinois . Franklin Ferriss , Missouri . William Wirt Howe , Louisiana . Thomas H ...
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... Chairman ; Moorfield Storey , Vice - Chairman ; and Julius Henry Cohen , Secretary . Before taking up the second matter , these resolutions call for the continuance of the Committee on Co - operation , and in order that its business may ...
... Chairman ; Moorfield Storey , Vice - Chairman ; and Julius Henry Cohen , Secretary . Before taking up the second matter , these resolutions call for the continuance of the Committee on Co - operation , and in order that its business may ...
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... Chairman : As I was just saying to Senator Hardwick , my conception of a presiding officer's duty is that he preside and not talk . I am going to act accordingly . Therefore , I take great pleasure in presenting to this meeting the ...
... Chairman : As I was just saying to Senator Hardwick , my conception of a presiding officer's duty is that he preside and not talk . I am going to act accordingly . Therefore , I take great pleasure in presenting to this meeting the ...
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... Chairman of the Committee on Obituaries . The distinguished member of the Association to whom the particular matter which I am about to mention has been committed will be unable to be here tomorrow when the report of the committee is ...
... Chairman of the Committee on Obituaries . The distinguished member of the Association to whom the particular matter which I am about to mention has been committed will be unable to be here tomorrow when the report of the committee is ...
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Page 643 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
Page 16 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which 1 am charged; I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any man's cause for lucre or malice.
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Page 362 - Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
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Page 640 - 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 to the constitution disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 643 - No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its...
Page 203 - Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
Page 299 - The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge and the only security that freemen desire.
Page 7 - Whenever there is proper ground for serious complaint of a judicial officer, it is the right and duty of the lawyer to submit his grievances to the proper authorities. In such cases, but not otherwise, such charges should be encouraged and the person making them should be protected.