Report of the West Virginia Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the ... Annual MeetingThe Association, 1907 - Bar associations Includes a directory of members. |
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Address of President admission adopted amendment ANDREW PRICE Annual Address-Hon annual meeting appointed attorney B. M. AMBLER Bachelor of Laws ballot bill Buckhannon C. W. DAILEY candidate Charles Charleston circuit Clarksburg client commerce Committee on Grievances Committee on Legislation Congress Constitution County D. H. Hill direct primary dollars duty Elkins Executive Council Fairmont G. W. McCLINTIC George Grafton Huntington interest J. L. WAMSLEY J. W. VANDERVORT lawyers Legislature Martinsburg Martinsville Mason matter MCCAMIC Morgantown motion was put Moundsville natural gas nominations OSENTON Parkersburg party Philippi poll clerks practice present PRESIDENT DAVIS primary election question recommendation regulate SECRETARY PETERKIN Snider special judge statute Supreme Court syllabi T. P. JACOBS Talbott tion Treasurer-W. N. Miller Virginia Bar Association vote voter W. P. WILLEY W. W. BRANNON Webster Springs West Virginia Bar Wetzel County Wheeling
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Page 91 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 91 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 163 - It is disreputable to hunt up defects in titles or other causes of action and inform thereof in order to be employed to bring suit, or to breed litigation by seeking out those with claims for personal injuries or those having any other grounds of action in order to secure them as clients...
Page 162 - IN SUPPORTING A CLIENT'S CAUSE. Nothing operates more certainly to create or to foster popular prejudice against lawyers as a class, and to deprive the profession of that full measure of public esteem and confidence which belongs to the proper discharge of its duties than does the false claim, often set up by the unscrupulous in defense of questionable transactions, that it is the duty of the lawyer to do whatever may enable him to succeed in winning his client's cause.
Page 109 - ... it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism: free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence...
Page 166 - ... appearance for others in cases likely to arise out of the transaction, and in which there is a reasonable expectation...
Page 145 - Virginia against any person charged with the commission of any crime without or within said jurisdiction may be executed thereon in like manner as if this act had not been passed.
Page 99 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 161 - ... arising. There are pitfalls and mantraps at every step, and the mere youth, at the very outset of his career, needs often the prudence and self-denial as well as the moral courage, which belong commonly to riper years. High moral principle is the only safe guide, the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction."— GEORGE SHARSWOOD.
Page 165 - The miscarriages to which justice is subject, by reason of surprises and disappointments in evidence and witnesses, and through mistakes of juries and errors of Courts, even though only occasional, admonish lawyers to beware of bold and confident assurances to clients, especially where the employment may depend upon such assurance. Whenever the controversy will admit of fair adjustment, the client should be advised to avoid or to end the litigation.