Annual Report of the American Bar Association: Including Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting, Volume 9Headquarters Office, 1886 - Bar associations |
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Page 169 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 248 - That provision has always been understood as referring only to a direct appropriation, and not to consequential injuries resulting from the exercise of lawful power. It has never been supposed to have any bearing upon, or to inhibit laws that indirectly work harm and loss to individuals.
Page 319 - The term of such imprisonment of any person so convicted and sentenced shall be terminated by the board of managers of the reformatory, as authorized by this act; but such Imprisonment shall not exceed the maximum term provided by law for the crime for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced.
Page 101 - Judges of the Supreme Court thereof, and to the Library of the State Department, and of the Department of Justice thereof, and to the Library of...
Page 98 - The President shall open each Annual Meeting of the Association with an address, in which he shall communicate the most noteworthy changes in statute law on points of general interest made in the several States and by Congress during the preceding year.
Page 321 - The s,aid board of managers shall also have power to establish rules and regulations under which prisoners within the reformatory may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the reformatory buildings and enclosure, but to remain while on parole in the legal custody and under the control of the board of managers and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of said reformatory...
Page 96 - The following committees shall be annually appointed by the President, for the year ensuing, and shall consist of five members each: On Jurisprudence and Law Reform; On Judicial Administration and Remedial Procedure; On Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar; On Commercial Law; On International Law ; On Publications; On Grievances.
Page 98 - This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any Annual Meeting, but no such change shall be made at any meeting at which less than thirty members are present. . CONSTRUCTION. Article XI. — The word "State," whenever used in this Constitution, shall be deemed to be equivalent to State, Territory, and the District of Columbia.
Page 323 - ... only if the board of parole is of opinion that there is reasonable probability that, if such prisoner is released, he will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, and that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society.
Page 97 - By-laws may be adopted at any annual meeting of the Association by a majority vote of the members present; and the Executive Committee may make By-laws for the Association, subject to amendment by the Association.