Report of the First[-thirty-first] Annual Meeting of the Virginia State Bar Association, Volume 34Virginia State Bar Association, 1922 - Bar associations |
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action Active members adopted Alexandria amendment Annual Meeting authority Bar Association became bill carried causes Chairman CHARLES Charlottesville Circuit Circuit Court City civil commission Committee Commonwealth Commonwealth's Attorney Congress consideration Constitution Corporation County Court of Appeals Danville death District doctrine duties EDWARD elected evidence fact Federal FRANK GEORGE give GORDON HENRY homicide Honorary members House important interest involved JAMES JOHN Judge judgment judicial jurisdiction jury justice killing land lawyers legislation LIBRARY limited marriage MARTIN murder Newport Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk opinion party period person Petersburg practice present President profession provides question reason received respect RICHARD Richmond Richmond Richmond Roanoke ROBERT Secretary Senate Springs statute Supreme Court term THOMAS tion trial Uniform United University Virginia Washington WILLIAM York
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Page 223 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity...
Page 185 - The battle of Hastings, and the events which followed it, not only placed a Duke of Normandy on the English throne, but gave up the whole population of England to the tyranny of the Norman race. The subjugation of a nation by a nation has seldom,, even in Asia, been more complete.
Page 197 - Moreover, the plea of not guilty denies every essential allegation in the indictment, and lays upon the prosecution the burden of proving the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt.
Page 172 - ... Antigone ; the majestic grandeur of the death of Polyxena; the more subdued and saintly resignation of Iphigenia, excusing with her last breath the father who had condemned her ; the joyous, modest, and loving Nausicaa, whose figure shines like a perfect idyll among the tragedies of the Odyssey— all these are pictures of perennial beauty, which Rome and Christendom, chivalry and modern civilisation, have neither eclipsed nor transcended.
Page 56 - ... the experience and judgment of a select body of lawyers chosen from every part of the United States.
Page 45 - No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than George Wythe- His virtue was of the purest tint; his integrity inflexible and his justice exact; of warm patriotism, and, devoted as he was to liberty, and the natural and equal rights of man, he might truly be called the Cato of his country, without the avarice of the Roman ; for a more disinterested person never lived.
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Page 192 - When the killing is proved to have been committed by the defendant, and nothing further is shown, the presumption of law is that it was malicious and an act of murder; but in such a case the verdict should be murder of the second degree, and not murder of the first degree.
Page 56 - The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is composed of Commissioners appointed by Legislative or Executive authority from the States, the District of Columbia, the territory of Alaska, and the Island Possessions of the United States. The organization meeting was held at Saratoga, New York, in August, 1892; and annual meetings have been regularly held since that time, immediately preceding the meetings of the American Bar Association.
Page 192 - In the case of Com. v. York, 9 Mete. (Mass.) 93, in an elaborate opinion, affirmed an instruction as follows: "The rule of law is, when the fact of killing Is proved to have been committed by the defendant, and nothing further Is shown, the presumption of law is that It Is malicious and an act of murder.