Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Том 13Virginia State Bar Association, 1900 |
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adjourned Admissions adopted Alexandria amendment annual meeting application appointed assessed attorney Bar Association Reports Bedford City Bentham Big Stone Gap BLACKFORD bonds by-laws cent certificate chairman CHARLES Charlottesville Chief Justice Christiansburg Circuit client Code constitutional convention corporation counsel deeds duty elected EPPA HUNTON examination Executive Committee fact fees GEORGE Harrisonburg honor interest JAMES Jefferson Davis John Marshall Judge judicial July land Law Reform lawyer legislation Legislature Lexington Lynchburg Massie matter ment motion negro Newport Norfolk O'Conor Old Point Comfort paper person Petersburg Portsmouth practice present President prisoner profession question R. S. Thomas race real estate records registration Richmond Roanoke statute Staunton suffrage Supreme Court taxation Tazewell THOMAS tion Torrens System transactions trial United University of Virginia Virginia State Bar Volume XII vote Warrenton WILLIAM
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Сторінка 346 - The lawyer owes entire devotion to the interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, to the end that nothing be taken or be withheld from him, save by the rules of law.
Сторінка 351 - A lawyer should endeavor to obtain full knowledge of his client's cause before advising thereon, and he is bound to give a candid opinion of the merits and probable result of pending or contemplated litigation.
Сторінка 348 - It is disreputable to hunt up defects in titles or other causes of action and inform thereof in order to be employed to bring suit, or to breed litigation by seeking out those with claims for personal injuries or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients...
Сторінка 348 - When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as the attestation or custody of an instrument and the like, he should leave the trial of the case to other counsel. Except when essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client.
Сторінка 228 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Сторінка 178 - Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Сторінка 350 - TO CONTROL THE INCIDENTS OF THE TRIAL As to incidental matters pending the trial, not affecting the merits of the cause, or working substantial prejudice to the rights of the client, such as forcing the opposite lawyer to trial when he is under affliction or bereavement; forcing the trial on a particular day to the injury of the opposite lawyer when no harm will result from a trial at a different time; agreeing to an extension...
Сторінка 350 - ... interrogatories and the like, the lawyer must be allowed to judge. In such matters no client has a right to demand that his counsel shall be illiberal, or that he do anything therein repugnant to his own sense of honor and propriety.
Сторінка 350 - The miscarriages to which justice is subject, by reason of surprises and disappointments in evidence and witnesses, and through mistakes of juries and errors of Courts, even though only occasional, admonish lawyers to beware of bold and confident assurances to clients, especially where the employment may depend upon such assurance. Whenever the controversy will admit of fair adjustment, the client should be advised to avoid or to end the litigation.
Сторінка 353 - It is the duty of the court and its officers to provide for the comfort of jurors. Displaying special concern for their comfort, and volunteering to ask favors for them while they are present — such as frequent motions to adjourn trials, or take a recess, solely on the ground of the jury's fatigue or hunger, the uncomfortableness of their seats or the courtroom, and the like, should be avoided.