Jurisprudence, Law and Ethics: Professional Ethics

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Banks law publishing Company, 1905 - 381 pages
 

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Page 153 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Page 152 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislatures and magistrates
Page 224 - A law of nature is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same.
Page 152 - to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and frugality, honesty and punctuality in their dealings; sincerity, good humor, and social affections and generous sentiments among the people.
Page 327 - that he will not stand between the crown and the 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 from what he may think of the charge or of the defense, he assumes the character of
Page 225 - Civil Law is to every subject, those rules which the commonwealth hath commanded him, by word, writing, or other sufficient sign of the will, to make use of, for the distinction of right and wrong; that is to say, of what is contrary, and what is not contrary to the rule. (Hobbes
Page 151 - the continuance of that government and the prosperity and happiness of the people, the Legislative Assembly shall make provision for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be opened to all children of the State
Page 284 - conducts himself that a reasonable man would believe he was assenting to the terms proposed by the other party, and that the other party on that belief enters into the contract with him, the man thus conducting himself would be equally bound as if he had intended to agree to the other party's terms.
Page 32 - when an act of Parliament is against common Right and Reason, or repugnant or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act
Page 206 - If it be found that the former decision is manifestly absurd or unjust, it is declared, not that such sentence was bad law, but that it was not law; that is, that it is not the established custom of the realm, as has been erroneously determined.

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