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These defects cause useless litigation , prevent resort to the courts to enforce just rights , make it often impossible to advise persons of their rights , and when litigation is begun create delay and expense .
These defects cause useless litigation , prevent resort to the courts to enforce just rights , make it often impossible to advise persons of their rights , and when litigation is begun create delay and expense .
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Technicalities in indictments surviving from a past age ; the excessive accentuation of the presumption of innocence ; the retention of archaic and absurd rules of evidence ; long delays in bringing to trial persons charged with crime ...
Technicalities in indictments surviving from a past age ; the excessive accentuation of the presumption of innocence ; the retention of archaic and absurd rules of evidence ; long delays in bringing to trial persons charged with crime ...
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I refer particularly to the sojourn of persons of wealth and social prominence in states or countries other than their real homes , for the sole purpose of obtaining divorces , and the ease with which they secure decrees which would not ...
I refer particularly to the sojourn of persons of wealth and social prominence in states or countries other than their real homes , for the sole purpose of obtaining divorces , and the ease with which they secure decrees which would not ...
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The dominant fact always is that some unfortunate person , frequently in destitute circumstances , has been killed or injured . Human sympathies are , of course , enlisted for the plaintiff . Everyone hopes that some legal way will be ...
The dominant fact always is that some unfortunate person , frequently in destitute circumstances , has been killed or injured . Human sympathies are , of course , enlisted for the plaintiff . Everyone hopes that some legal way will be ...
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There is an element of injustice in an immunity based upon what may be the slightest negligence of the injured person , when the fault of the defendant is of the gravest character . Some way should be devised of apportioning damages ...
There is an element of injustice in an immunity based upon what may be the slightest negligence of the injured person , when the fault of the defendant is of the gravest character . Some way should be devised of apportioning damages ...
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Page 63 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world: All things in heaven and in earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power;—both angels and men, and creatures of what condition
Page 63 - earth do her homage,—the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power;—both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever —though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform
Page 210 - repaying fines that it imposed. Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.' Of course I am speaking only of
Page 63 - angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever —though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform concert,—admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 205 - The Statute of 1917, in Sec. 4, punishes conspiracies to obstruct as well as actual obstruction. If the act (speaking, or circulating a paper), its tendency and the intent with which it is done are the same, we perceive no ground for saying that success alone warrants making the act a crime.
Page 161 - argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print. What is true with reference to a jury is true also with reference to a court. Cases like the present are more likely to arise, no doubt, when there is a jury and the publication may
Page 9 - This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire which has its worn-out lunatics in every madhouse, and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every
Page 9 - acquaintance; which gives to moneyed might the means abundantly of wearing out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart that there is not an honorable man among its practitioners who would not give, who does not often give the
Page 11 - It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. How much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast when he shall have to say that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book,
Page 210 - I wholly disagree with the argument of the Government that the First Amendment left the common law as to seditious libel in force. History seems to me against the notion. I had conceived that the United States through many years had shown its repentance for the Sedition Act of 1798,
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| Title | Law Reform: Papers and Addresses by a Practicing Lawyer |
| Author | Henry Waters Taft |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1926 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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