Eunomus: or, Dialogues concerning the law and constitution of England. With an essay on dialogue, Volume 2B. White, 1774 - Constitutional law |
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Page 224 - I might instance in other professions the obligation men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of History; and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more (I speak of ninetynine in a hundred at least...
Page 225 - Till this happen, the profession of the law will scarce deserve to be ranked among the learned professions ; and whenever it happens, one of the vantage grounds, to which men must climb, is metaphysical, and the other historical knowledge.
Page 132 - On that verdict, a judgment is afterward entered. The plaintiff's costs of suit are then taxed, by the officer of the court, and the judgment is put in execution, by levying on the defendant's effects the damages given by the jury, and the costs allowed by the court ; which being done there is an end of the suit, and both parties are once more out of court.
Page 224 - But there have been lawyers that were orators, philosophers, historians : there have been Bacons and Clarendons, my lord. There will be none such any more, till in some better age, true ambition or the love of fame prevails over avarice ; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Page 39 - But when the bandage was taken from his eyes, what was his astonishment to find that though he had stopped at St. Michael's altar, he was hugging to his bosom, not St.
Page 135 - The application to a court by counsel is called a motion; and the order made by a court on any motion, when drawn into form by the officer, is called a rule.
Page 243 - ... space at least, are called out of their contemplation to practice, and in the face of the world to take upon them the protection and defence of clients
Page 244 - Pleaders, without the Bar, to diftinguifh them from Benchers, or thofe, who have been Readers, who are fometimes admitted to plead within the Bar, as the King, Queen or Princes Council are.
Page 152 - ... confined limits of an assize commission : from these considerations arises a motion for a trial at bar, by all the four judges sitting at Westminster in term time. In such a case the extraordinary expense of the trial may be more than balanced by the consideration of its being most probably decisive. After having thus gone a little out of the way to put a case less common, let us return to the common case, and imagine the cause brought to the assizes, the jury sworn, and the witnesses examined....
Page 158 - ... liable to an attachment, which, as has been already stated, is a remedy which courts always have at hand to redress the wilful disobedience or oppression of their officers in any stage of the proceedings. When execution is done, the cause is over. But a cause may, on many occasions, come much sooner to an end, and in a direction very different from what has been mentioned. It may come sooner to a trial ; or it may come to execution without a trial.