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Georgia Bar Association. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS . MORNING SESSION . Thursday , August 4 , 1887 . The President : The Association will please come to order . On yesterday a resolution was adopted direct- ing the chair to designate five ...
Georgia Bar Association. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS . MORNING SESSION . Thursday , August 4 , 1887 . The President : The Association will please come to order . On yesterday a resolution was adopted direct- ing the chair to designate five ...
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Georgia Bar Association. Lawyers aided in formulating the fundamental principles of civil and reli- gous liberty which are embodied in our Federal and State Constitutions ; and Marshall and Story and their associates have , by their ...
Georgia Bar Association. Lawyers aided in formulating the fundamental principles of civil and reli- gous liberty which are embodied in our Federal and State Constitutions ; and Marshall and Story and their associates have , by their ...
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Georgia Bar Association. moral responsibility , that these itinerant justices , amid so many tempta- tions and ... law . It may be well surmised that , but for the high character of this primitive judiciary , that reverence for precedent ...
Georgia Bar Association. moral responsibility , that these itinerant justices , amid so many tempta- tions and ... law . It may be well surmised that , but for the high character of this primitive judiciary , that reverence for precedent ...
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Georgia Bar Association. THE ALIEN AND THE RENEGADE fattened on the miseries of our people . Few who did not share that wretchedness can imagine the utter destruction , not only of physical resources , but also of the reign of law ...
Georgia Bar Association. THE ALIEN AND THE RENEGADE fattened on the miseries of our people . Few who did not share that wretchedness can imagine the utter destruction , not only of physical resources , but also of the reign of law ...
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Georgia Bar Association. justly it may cut against the interests or infringe upon the rights of other classes of ... society and its prosperity . The restless demagogue is a dangerous enemy to the repose necessary to the highest ...
Georgia Bar Association. justly it may cut against the interests or infringe upon the rights of other classes of ... society and its prosperity . The restless demagogue is a dangerous enemy to the repose necessary to the highest ...
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Page 110 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail ; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Page 146 - ... on the trial of any issue joined, or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in any court, or before any judge, jury, sheriff, coroner, magistrate, officer, or person having, by law or by consent of parties, authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence...
Page 136 - On this day of , 19 , before me appeared AB, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn (or affirmed), did say that he is the president (or other officer or agent of the corporation or association) of (describing the corporation or association), and that...
Page 46 - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Page 136 - ... the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its board of directors, and said AB acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
Page 103 - 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 earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 147 - But nothing herein contained shall render any person who, in any criminal proceeding, is charged with the commission of any indictable offence, or any offence punishable on summary conviction, competent or compellable to give evidence for or against himself or herself, or shall render any person compellable to answer any question^ tending to criminate himself or herself...
Page 112 - Sir James Hales was dead ; and how came he to his death ? It may be -answered, by drowning. And who drowned him ? Sir James Hales. And when did he drown him ? In his lifetime. So that Sir James Hales, being alive, caused Sir James Hales to die ; and the act of the living man was the death of the dead man. And then for this offence it is reasonable to punish the living man who committed the offence, and not the dead man.
Page 161 - Would that the spirit of the illustrious dead whom we lament to-day could speak from the grave to both parties to this deplorable discord in tones which should reach each and every heart throughout this broad territory: " My countrymen! know one another, and you will love one another.
Page 50 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind.