Proceedings of the Louisiana Bar Association, Volume 24

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Vol. 15, 1914, contains proceedings of the joint convention of the Louisiana and Mississippi bar associations; v. 27, 1926, proceedings of the joint convention of the Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas bar associations (published at Austin, Texas).
 

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Page 280 - I will abstain from all offensive personality, and advance no fact prejudicial to the honor or reputation of a party or witness, unless required by the justice of the cause with which...
Page 166 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 130 - ... but that the honest purchaser who buys for a valuable consideration in the course of trade, without notice of any adverse claim, or any circumstances which might lead a prudent man to suspect such adverse claim, will be protected in his title against the original owner in those cases, and in those...
Page 124 - A right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another until certain demands of him, the person in possession, are satisfied'.
Page 216 - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Louisiana...
Page 283 - X of the Constitution, there shall be the following standing committees : 1. A Committee on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, who shall be charged with the duty of attention to all proposed changes in the law, and of recommending such as, in their opinion, may be entitled to favorable consideration of the Association.
Page 161 - Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States, (221 US 1), and United States v. American Tobacco Company, (221 US 106), that the act was placed upon its proper basis and the rule of reason governing the application of its principles luminously expounded.
Page 280 - To employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never seek to mislead the judge or any judicial officer by an artifice or false statement of fact or law; 5.
Page 122 - The right which the lessor has over the products of the estate, and on the movables which are found on the place leased, for his rent, is of a higher nature than mere privilege. The latter is only enforced on the price arising from the sale of movables to which it applies. It does not enable the creditor to take or keep the effects themselves specially. The lessor, on the contrary, may take the effects themselves and retain them until he is paid.
Page 105 - And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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