 From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.  The Paisley magazine Vol 1 - Page 334Full view - About this book
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 pages
...valuable part of the English Constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can he permitted to say that he will or will not stand between...subject arraigned in the Court, where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 pages
...justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end." To say that the British constitution... | |
 | South Carolina Bar Association - 1886 - 742 pages
...forget the declaration of Lord Erskine in his defence of Thomas Paine; " from the moment (he declared) that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he...subject arraigned in the court, where he daily sits to practice; from that moment the liberties of England are at an end." When (he adds) " the advocate refuses... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1897 - 554 pages
...constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will of will not stand between the Crown and the subject,...what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and, in proportion... | |
 | 1903 - 456 pages
...justice, the most valuable pan of the English Constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court wihere he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1893 - 634 pages
...that from the moment an advocate refuses to defend a prisoner in court where he daily sits to practice from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If an advocate refuses to defend because of what he may think of the prosecution or the defence, he assumes... | |
 | James Lambert High, Edwin Burritt Smith - 1901 - 300 pages
...justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
 | George William Warvelle - 1902 - 260 pages
...merely because he may believe the accused to be guilty. As was eloquently said by the great Erskine: "If the advocate refuses to defend from what he may think of the charge or the defense, he assumes the character of the judge, nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment;... | |
 | Joshua Hilary Hudson - 1903 - 228 pages
...justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the' advocate refuses to defend... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - 1905 - 496 pages
...security of the subject." Another English writer says: "From the moment that any advocate says that he will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses to defend... | |
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