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... wished to call him , made a written statement of what he expected he would be able to prove , and this was deposited with the other documents in the cause in the magistrate's box , but at the trial the witness was obliged to appear ...
... wished to call him , made a written statement of what he expected he would be able to prove , and this was deposited with the other documents in the cause in the magistrate's box , but at the trial the witness was obliged to appear ...
Page 42
... wished to press the accusation . The prisoner then pleaded his own cause , and sometimes with fetters on his limbs , while officers stood on each side to prevent his escape . Two urns , or ballot - boxes , were placed for the use of ...
... wished to press the accusation . The prisoner then pleaded his own cause , and sometimes with fetters on his limbs , while officers stood on each side to prevent his escape . Two urns , or ballot - boxes , were placed for the use of ...
Page 58
... wished to do so . So that , gentlemen , it is much fairer that you should give your verdict in favour of a family connexion which is allowed on both sides , than maintain a will which has been unjustly obtained . And , besides this ...
... wished to do so . So that , gentlemen , it is much fairer that you should give your verdict in favour of a family connexion which is allowed on both sides , than maintain a will which has been unjustly obtained . And , besides this ...
Page 66
... wished to pursue a fanciful analogy , we might compare the books containing the jus Flavianum and jus Ælianum to our old Registrum Brevium , first published in the reign of Henry VIII . Soon , however , as must always inevitably happen ...
... wished to pursue a fanciful analogy , we might compare the books containing the jus Flavianum and jus Ælianum to our old Registrum Brevium , first published in the reign of Henry VIII . Soon , however , as must always inevitably happen ...
Page 87
... wished were allowed to approach him , and he would ask aloud if there were any present who had suits . When the parties appeared , he used to bid two of his bailiffs determine their cause in his presence upon the spot.3 But , after the ...
... wished were allowed to approach him , and he would ask aloud if there were any present who had suits . When the parties appeared , he used to bid two of his bailiffs determine their cause in his presence upon the spot.3 But , after the ...
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Page 441 - Lordships, which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind, that an advocate by the sacred duty which he owes his Client, knows in the discharge of that office but one person in the world, that Client and none other. To save that Client by all expedient means, to protect that Client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction...
Page 359 - The accused has a right to demand it, on the simple principle that every man is presumed to be innocent until he is proved to be guilty.
Page 356 - I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it.