Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the Texas Bar Association, Volume 24, Part 1905order of the Association, 1906 - Bar associations |
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adopted amendment appointed ARTICLE Austin BEATY Beaumont bench bill Board of Directors Bonham Brenham Bryan C. O. D. sale carrier Chairman character Chas citizen Civil Appeals committee common law Constitution Corsicana COUNTY Court of Criminal Courts of Civil Criminal Appeals criminal law Dallas declared delivery Denison district court duty El Paso elected fact favor Fort Worth Galveston Garwood gentlemen Grayson county Harris Hillsboro homestead honor Houston JUDGE REESE Judge White judicial judiciary July 13 July 25 July 31 jurisdiction jurisprudence jurors justice La Grange land lawyer legislative Legislature Masterson matter ment motion Norman G option laws paper Paso pass person practice present President procedure profession provision question reason Reform resolution rule San Antonio Secretary session Sherman Spoonts statute submitted Supreme Court Terrell Texarkana Texas Bar Association Thos tion twelve vote Worth
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Page 67 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 66 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto me.
Page 218 - ... the homestead in a city, town or village, shall consist of lot or lots, not to exceed in value five thousand dollars at the time of their designation as the homestead, without reference to the value of any improvements thereon ; provided, that the same shall be used for the purposes of a home, or as a place to exercise the calling or business of the head of a family ; provided, also, that any temporary renting of the homestead shall not change the character of the same, when no other homestead...
Page 139 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - Grand and petit juries in the District Courts shall be composed of twelve men ; but nine members of a grand jury shall be a quorum to transact business and present bills. In trials of civil cases, and in trials of criminal cases below the grade of felony in the District Courts, nine members of the jury, concurring, may render a verdict, but when the verdict...
Page 218 - ... the work and material are contracted for in writing, with the consent of the wife given in the same manner as is required in making a sale and conveyance of the homestead...
Page 67 - SUNSET and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho...
Page 216 - It was an oblong pile of barrack building, partitioned into squalid houses standing back to back, so that there were no back rooms ; environed by a narrow paved yard, hemmed in by high walls duly spiked at top. Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers.
Page 26 - When pending the trial of any case one or more jurors, not exceeding three, may die, or be disabled from sitting, the remainder of the jury shall have the power to render the verdict: Provided, That the legislature may change or modify the rule authorizing less than the whole number of the jury to render a verdict.
Page 127 - A committee of three, of whom the Secretary shall always be one, shall be appointed by the President at each Annual Meeting of the Association, whose duty it shall be to report to the next meeting the names of all members who shall, in the interval, have died, with such notices of them as shall, in the discretion of the committee, be proper.