 | 1871 - 630 pages
...determines it.' Lord Brougham, defending Queen Caroline before the House of Lords, affirmed that ' an advocate in the discharge of his duty knows but one person — his client ; to save whom he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, or the destruction... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1820 - 782 pages
...before stated to their lordship^' but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them, that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...that person is his client. To save that client by all mean* and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to himself, is... | |
 | Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) - Scandals - 1820 - 958 pages
...stated to their lordships — but surely of tliat it was scarcely necessary to remind them — that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...the world, and that person is his client. To save thnt client by all means and expedients, and at all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1821 - 676 pages
...before stated to their lordships—but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them—that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to himself, is his first and only duty ; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm,... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - Great Britain - 1821 - 646 pages
...their lordships — but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them — that an advotcate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person...all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to him*self, is his first and only duty; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm,... | |
 | 1821 - 536 pages
...lordships—but surely of that it was BCarcely necessary to remind them—that an advocate, in the discharge «f his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and...all hazards and costs to other persons, and, among them, to himself, is his first and only duty ; and in performing this duty he must not regard the alarm,... | |
 | English poetry - 1821 - 808 pages
...painful duty. "I have stated on afbrmerocca- . sion, but to your lordships it was unnecessary, that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world — his client, and no other. To save that client by all expedient means, is his duty, and that at... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Law - 1839 - 248 pages
...maintain, it is, nevertheless, startling in the highest degree, if such a man dares to assert that ' an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but...all hazards and costs to other persons, and among them, to himself, is his first and only duty ; and in performing this duty, he must not regard the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1857 - 718 pages
...they are serving, no matter in what capacity, as their clients ; and Lord Brougham says; ' The lawyer in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and that person is his client ; ' a principle, I suppose, which could be more widely expressed in the sentiment : Dulce et decorum... | |
 | George Sharswood - Legal ethics - 1860 - 212 pages
...to say what cool reflection and sober reason certainly never can approve. "An advocate," said he, " in the discharge of his duty knows but one person...all hazards and costs to other persons, and among them to himself, is his first and only duty ; and in performleged; although no question then arose... | |
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He had before stated to their lordships—but surely of that it was scarcely necessary to remind them—that an advocate, in the discharge of his duty, knows but one person in all the world, and that person is his client To save that client by all means... 
