 | 1855 - 778 pages
...which presides will not permit truth to be misrepresented by any partial examination. VI. Lord Erskine. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted...that he will or will not stand between the crown and a subject, arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice — from that moment the liberties... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 410 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...If the advocate refuses to defend from what he may ttirik of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the Judge ; nay, he assumes it... | |
 | George Sharswood - 1860 - 212 pages
...of professional duty to balance the scale, as there fessor Christian's note to 4 Blackst. Com. 356. 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 character of the judge, nay, he assumes it before the... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 pages
...the practice of the courts, than by counsel familiar with both. "From the moment," says Erskine(a), "that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1870 - 514 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...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... | |
 | 1874 - 752 pages
...of the subject." "From the moment," says Lord Erskine, 6 Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 361, " that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...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 refaces to defend... | |
 | 1874 - 844 pages
...of the subject." "From the moment," say» Lord Erskine, 6 Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 361, "that any advocate can be permitted to say that he...the subject, arraigned in the court where he daily sit« to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 452 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 wilt or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 464 pages
...which, impartial justice, the most valnable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he wilt or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits... | |
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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. 
