The Publications of the Southern New Hampshire Bar AssociationThe Association, 1899 - Bar associations |
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Page 300
... remark that there is no situation more desirable , more worthy of being sought after , than that which presents an intellectual lawyer , independently , boldly and success- fully maintaining the just rights of an intelligent and ...
... remark that there is no situation more desirable , more worthy of being sought after , than that which presents an intellectual lawyer , independently , boldly and success- fully maintaining the just rights of an intelligent and ...
Page 301
... remarked : " Well , first of all , he understood his case before he brought it , and when he brought it he got his writ right ; " and then , after further deliberation , he said : " I do n't remember that in the whole period , covering ...
... remarked : " Well , first of all , he understood his case before he brought it , and when he brought it he got his writ right ; " and then , after further deliberation , he said : " I do n't remember that in the whole period , covering ...
Page 305
... remark of a distinguished New York lawyer , who said that he could respond easily and comfortably to all the demands of his business in eleven . months , but could not possibly do it in twelve , for twelve months was too short a time ...
... remark of a distinguished New York lawyer , who said that he could respond easily and comfortably to all the demands of his business in eleven . months , but could not possibly do it in twelve , for twelve months was too short a time ...
Page 307
... remark , let me say , that when New Hampshire has two such men on the bench , the security against bad law by mistake in the sense of oversight , is absolute , and any departure from the beaten path of judicial decision will not be made ...
... remark , let me say , that when New Hampshire has two such men on the bench , the security against bad law by mistake in the sense of oversight , is absolute , and any departure from the beaten path of judicial decision will not be made ...
Page 313
... remark , that while we adopted bodily the fundamental framework of the great system of English jurisprudence , so far as not inconsistent with our institu- tions , and while we have received many lessons from the English courts as to ...
... remark , that while we adopted bodily the fundamental framework of the great system of English jurisprudence , so far as not inconsistent with our institu- tions , and while we have received many lessons from the English courts as to ...
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Page 356 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 328 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 326 - Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion think themselves in possession of all truth and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele, a Protestant, in a Dedication, tells the Pope that the only difference between our Churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrines is, the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
Page 321 - Judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the laws, has no existence. Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned it is the duty of the Court to follow it. Judicial power is never exercised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of...
Page 312 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent, as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 359 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Page 319 - As a general rule, when a duty is at the proper time asked to be done, and improperly refused to be done, the right to compel it to be done is fixed, and is not destroyed by the lapse of the time within which in the first place the duty ought to have been done.
Page 363 - I have asked that dreadful question of the hills that look eternal — of the clear streams that flow forever— of the stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirit has walked in glory.
Page 316 - ... of nations, Joseph Story was destined by Providence to act, and did act, an important part. Acknowledging, as we all acknowledge, our obligations to the original sources of English law, as well as of civil liberty, we have seen in our generation copious and salutary streams turning and running backward, replenishing their original fountains, and giving a fresher and a brighter green to the fields of English jurisprudence.
Page 326 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.