 Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER....  Littell's Living Age - Page 3051850Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Fraser - 1891 - 516 pages
...He then proceeded to quote, word for word, the opinion of the eminent person to whom he had alluded. "An Advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and cost to all others, and, among others, to himself, is the highest, and most unquestioned of his duties... | |
 | Sir William Fraser - 1891 - 516 pages
...He then proceeded to quote, word for word, the opinion of the eminent person to whom he had alluded. "An Advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and cost to all others, and, among others, to himself, is the highest, and most unquestioned of his duties... | |
 | Austin Abbott - 1895 - 776 pages
...meiiiorable, declaration of one of the leading lawyers of England, on the trial of Queen Caroline : " that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person iii the world — that client, and none other. To save that client by all expedient means ; to protect... | |
 | James Paterson - 1896 - 808 pages
...in certain emergencies have resorted to, and thus laid down the limits of his duty to his client: " An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...the discharge of that office but one person in the world—that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means—to protect that client... | |
 | George Allen Hubbell - 1910 - 312 pages
...unworthy of Christianity and civilization; it is unworthy of heathenism. " 'An advocate,' says he, 'by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, that client and none other. To save that client by all expedient means, — to protect that client... | |
 | Moorfield Storey - 1911 - 304 pages
...counsel. Lord Brougham, in the excitement of his argument for Queen Caroline, some ninety years ago said: "An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...client and none other. To save that client by all means and expedients, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others... | |
 | Byrin K. Elliott - 1911 - 668 pages
...effective order. In discharging this duty the advocate may, in strictest honor, agree with Brougham, that "An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...in the world — that client, and none other." To this extent we may concur with that great advocate, although we cannot follow him further. There is... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1911 - 632 pages
...effective order. In discharging this duty the advocate may, in strictest honor, agree with Brougham, that "An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...the discharge of that office, but one person in the world—that client, and none other." To this extent we may concur with that great advocate, although... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1912 - 498 pages
...own. Allow me to read a description of the duty of a counsel to a client, and by a great authority : ' An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the .suffering, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1912 - 366 pages
...are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes to his client, knows, in the discharge of that office,...is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction, which he may bring... | |
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