Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the Texas Bar Associationorder of the Association, 1882 - Bar associations |
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... judgment increase daily . Perfect good faith , strict personal honor , educated intelligence and a practical acquaintance with affairs , combined with a knowledge of the law , are necessary for all who would become members of the legal ...
... judgment increase daily . Perfect good faith , strict personal honor , educated intelligence and a practical acquaintance with affairs , combined with a knowledge of the law , are necessary for all who would become members of the legal ...
Page 52
... judgment by confession in any court in the State . Such notes are often instruments of extreme oppression , and are not unfrequently , by collusion between the debtor and creditor , designed to accomplish a fraudulent preference . If ...
... judgment by confession in any court in the State . Such notes are often instruments of extreme oppression , and are not unfrequently , by collusion between the debtor and creditor , designed to accomplish a fraudulent preference . If ...
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... judgment for defendant ; I appeal , and judgment reversed at the costs of TEXAS BAR ASSOCIATION 11.
... judgment for defendant ; I appeal , and judgment reversed at the costs of TEXAS BAR ASSOCIATION 11.
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... judgment of the judges . 2. As the law now is , the Supreme Court , where a case has been tried by a judge and no jury , will reverse or affirm a case upon a con- sideration of the evidence legally admissible . These cases should be ...
... judgment of the judges . 2. As the law now is , the Supreme Court , where a case has been tried by a judge and no jury , will reverse or affirm a case upon a con- sideration of the evidence legally admissible . These cases should be ...
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... judgment can be made until after the in- stitution of suit , and as even the acceptance or waiver of service is prohibited until after the suit is brought . Chapter 37 , page 35 , amends the law in relation to escheats . Chapter 52 ...
... judgment can be made until after the in- stitution of suit , and as even the acceptance or waiver of service is prohibited until after the suit is brought . Chapter 37 , page 35 , amends the law in relation to escheats . Chapter 52 ...
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Page 51 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 52 - Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration, for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?
Page 53 - ... bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment.
Page 52 - They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.
Page 48 - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 47 - America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose ; but on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent states to which they respectively belong. It is to be the assent and ratification of the several states, derived from the supreme authority in each state — the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the constitution, will not be a national,...
Page 52 - Had no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no Government established of which an exact model did not present itself, the People of the United States might, at this moment, have been numbered among the melancholy victims of misguided councils, must at best have been laboring under the weight of some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of the rest of mankind.
Page 42 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed on, to take into consideration the trade of the United States ; to examine the relative situation and trade of the said States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony...
Page 51 - Those great and good men foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint, and seek by sharp and decisive measures to accomplish ends deemed just and proper; and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, unless established by irrepealable law. The history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future.
Page 31 - All goods, chattels, moneys, and other property, both real and personal, or any interest therein of the judgment debtor, not exempt by law, and all property and rights of property seized and held under attachment in the action, shall be liable to execution.