The Jurist, Volume 14, Part 2

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S. Sweet, 1851 - Law
 

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Page 299 - 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 I am charged; I will never reject, from any consideration personal to myself, the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, or delay any man's cause for lucre or malice. SO HELP ME GOD.
Page 150 - We command you, That within eight days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, you do cause an appearance to be entered...
Page 244 - Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence...
Page 45 - Chitty on Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. A Treatise on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Cheques on Bankers, Bankers' Cash Notes, and Bank Notes ; with References to the Law of Scotland, France, and America.
Page 153 - Upon motion, &c. [as in Form No. 1], this Court doth order, that it be referred to the Master in rotation to take an account of what is due to the defendant for principal and interest on his mortgage [or equitable mortgage...
Page 299 - 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 338 - in all Acts, words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females, and the singular to include the plural, and the plural the singular, unless the contrary as to gender and number is expressly provided...
Page 328 - This term is applied to cases where the owner of a particular estate has been a party to some act, the validity of which he is by law afterwards estopped from disputing, and which would not be valid if his particular estate had continued to exist.
Page 102 - Archbold's Pleading and Evidence in Criminal Cases. — With the Statutes, Precedents of Indictments, &c., and the Evidence necessary to support them.
Page 208 - An act for facilitating the administration of justice in the court of Chancery...

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