Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association, Volume 4Georgia Bar Association, 1888 - Bar associations List of members in each volume. |
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... common purpose . It happens that not a member of the present committee is a resident of At- lanta . I would offer a resolution that a special commit- tee of five lawyers resident in Atlanta be associated with this present standing ...
... common purpose . It happens that not a member of the present committee is a resident of At- lanta . I would offer a resolution that a special commit- tee of five lawyers resident in Atlanta be associated with this present standing ...
Page 77
... common law of England to be- " the perfection of human reason . " They also had something resembling " trial by jury , " called the judex , and composed of judices , or jurors , and presided over by a praetor or magistrate . Their ...
... common law of England to be- " the perfection of human reason . " They also had something resembling " trial by jury , " called the judex , and composed of judices , or jurors , and presided over by a praetor or magistrate . Their ...
Page 79
... common law of England . " This also was the work , chiefly , of lawyers . Its growth , too , was grad- ual ; every precious principle it embodies has been purchased with blood . Whilst Blackstone's well - known tribute to its merits may ...
... common law of England . " This also was the work , chiefly , of lawyers . Its growth , too , was grad- ual ; every precious principle it embodies has been purchased with blood . Whilst Blackstone's well - known tribute to its merits may ...
Page 89
... common law prevail , would now follow such a precedent , this decision was put on the ground that the inferior judge , in exceeding his juris- diction , ceased to be judge , and his acts then became only the conduct of a private citizen ...
... common law prevail , would now follow such a precedent , this decision was put on the ground that the inferior judge , in exceeding his juris- diction , ceased to be judge , and his acts then became only the conduct of a private citizen ...
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... common honesty , fails to recognize and to meet his respon- sibility . No intelligent observer , who has attended the sittings of the Superior Courts outside the cities , has failed to note that they are veritable schools for the ...
... common honesty , fails to recognize and to meet his respon- sibility . No intelligent observer , who has attended the sittings of the Superior Courts outside the cities , has failed to note that they are veritable schools for the ...
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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.