 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...counsel. Gentlemen, it is now my duty to address myself regularly, and without digression, to the defence. And the first thing which presents itself in the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...counsel. Gentlemen, it is now my duty to address myself regularly, and without digression, to the defence. And the first thing which presents itself in the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...presents itself in the discussion of any subject, is to state distinctly, and with precision, what the question is, and, where prejudice and misrepresentation... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...judgment; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...defence. The first thing which presents itself in the dis* cussion of any subject, is to state distinctly, and with precision, what the question is, and,... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scal« against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent...presents itself in the discussion of any subject, is to state distinctly, and with precision, what the question is, and, where prejudice and misrepresentation... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...judgment; and in proportion to his rank and ' reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, % mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose...and which commands the very Judge to be his Counsel. The first thing which presents itself in the discussion of any subject, is to state distinctly, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...judgment; and, in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perbaps, a mistaken opinion, into the scale against the accused, in whose...and which commands the very judge to be his counsel. The following extract is from the life of Sir M. Hale, 143. Ii he saw a cause was unjust, he for a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 494 pages
...judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused ; in whose...principle of English law makes all presumptions, and commands the very judge to be his counsel." Immediately after this trial, Mr. Erskine was called upon... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 498 pages
...judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of, perhaps, a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused ; in whose...principle of English law makes all presumptions, and commands the very judge to be his counsel." Immediately after this trial, Mr. Erskine was called" upon... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...judgment, and in proportion to his rank and reputation puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favour the benevolent principle of the English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel." In meeting... | |
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If the 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 hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence... 
