 | 734 pages
...biography of Lord Chancellor Erskine to accomplish this. " From the moment," said that celebrated writer, " that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he...advocate refuses to defend from what he may think of the charge, or of the defence, Le assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before... | |
 | 1832 - 496 pages
...associated with the cause of his client. " From the moment," says Erskine, in his defence of Thomas Paine, " that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...advocate refuses, to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...which impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sils to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...associated with the cause of his client. " From the moment," says Erskine, in his defence of Thomas Paine, " that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...the matter I lay before you.—Ib. 233. OPINION is free, CONDUCT only is amenable to law.—Ib. 234. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end—if the advocate refuses to defend,... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...cost him the attorney-generalship to the Prince of Wales, is as true as it is eloquent and brave. " From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the cJutracter of the judge, nay, he assumes it before... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he wiU or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits... | |
 | Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 pages
...associated with the cause of his client. " ' From the moment (says Erskine, in his defence of Thomas Paine) that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...Advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the... | |
 | 1844 - 530 pages
...difficulty to which Mr. O'Brien has not even attempted a reply : " From the moment," said Erskine, " that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 544 pages
...not stand between the crown and a subject, arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an...advocate refuses to defend from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before... | |
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From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. 
