Pacific Islands Pilot, Volume 2J.D. Potter, 1893 |
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... client's desires ? for him his exact rights as defined by law ? to enable him to obtain and to do justice ? some ... client's cases . In their opinion he is concerned with his client's rights and with the opposing party's obligations ...
... client's desires ? for him his exact rights as defined by law ? to enable him to obtain and to do justice ? some ... client's cases . In their opinion he is concerned with his client's rights and with the opposing party's obligations ...
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... client in a deliberate abuse of those privileges . So in civil practice , the lawyer must see to it that his client's rights are main- tained and enforced . But it is just as wrong for him to assist his client to evade just obligations ...
... client in a deliberate abuse of those privileges . So in civil practice , the lawyer must see to it that his client's rights are main- tained and enforced . But it is just as wrong for him to assist his client to evade just obligations ...
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... client as best he can . The client , he assumes , comes to him to have his legal rights and duties made plain to him , as well as to have his rights upheld in court , and the law , as we have it , is a good measure of those rights and ...
... client as best he can . The client , he assumes , comes to him to have his legal rights and duties made plain to him , as well as to have his rights upheld in court , and the law , as we have it , is a good measure of those rights and ...
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... client remain unchanged ? Must every right and obligation of the client still be tested by the sanction of the government ? By many these questions will be answered affirm- atively . Indeed , that is the only way they can be answered by ...
... client remain unchanged ? Must every right and obligation of the client still be tested by the sanction of the government ? By many these questions will be answered affirm- atively . Indeed , that is the only way they can be answered by ...
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... client to obtain and to do justice . But what , it will be asked , is meant by justice ? Like every term of this kind , the full meaning cannot be stated , but its essentials can at least be sug- gested . If a judge could have ...
... client to obtain and to do justice . But what , it will be asked , is meant by justice ? Like every term of this kind , the full meaning cannot be stated , but its essentials can at least be sug- gested . If a judge could have ...
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Page 87 - Another privilege of a citizen of the United States is to demand the care and protection of the Federal Government over his life, liberty, and property when on the high seas or within the jurisdiction of a foreign government.
Page 197 - Columbia, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours in any one calendar day. and it shall be unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the...
Page 87 - The right to peaceably assemble and petition for redress of grievances, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, are rights of the citizen guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
Page 85 - people of the United States ' and 'citizens' are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the ' sovereign people,' and every c1tizen is one of this people, and a constituent member of this sovereignty.
Page 87 - It is that a citizen of the United States can, of his own volition, become a citizen of any State of the Union by a bona fide residence therein, with the same rights as other citizens of that State.
Page 76 - But when it is certain that damages have been caused by a breach of contract, and the only uncertainty is as to their amount, there can rarely be good reason for refusing, on account of such uncertainty, any damages whatever for the breach. A person violating his contract should not be permitted entirely to escape liability because the amount of the damages which he has caused is uncertain.
Page 86 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 20 - But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 85 - It is true, every person, and every class and description of persons, who were at the time of the adoption of the Constitution recognized as citizens in the several States, became also citizens of this new political body; but none other; it was formed by them, and for them and their posterity, but for no one else.
Page 75 - Occupancy is the taking possession of those things which before belonged to nobody;" and "whatever movables are found upon the surface of the earth, or in the sea, and are unclaimed by any owner, are supposed to be abandoned by the last proprietor, and as such are returned into the common stock and mass of things; and therefore they belong, as in a state of nature, to the first occupant or finder.