 | Industries - 1855 - 778 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 end. If the advocate refuses to defend from what ho may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1857 - 410 pages
...no existence. 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...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 - Legal ethics - 1860 - 212 pages
...Blackst. Com. 356. 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...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... | |
 | Homersham Cox - Constitutional law - 1863 - 860 pages
..."From the moment," says Erskine(a), "that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned...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 - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 504 pages
...have no existence. 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...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... | |
 | Law - 1870 - 404 pages
...his defence of Thomas Paine against the charge of publishing a seditious libel (this was in 1792), "from what he may think of the charge, or of the defence, he assumes the character of judge, nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment." * Mollot, " Regie de la Profession," p. 141.... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 752 pages
...Lives of the Chancellors, 361, " 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 practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refaces to defend... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 844 pages
...Lives of the Chancellors, 361, "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 sit« to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end. If the advocate refuses... | |
 | William Forsyth - Jurisprudence - 1875 - 536 pages
...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...defend, from what he may think of the charge, or of the defense, he assumes the character of the judge ; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and,... | |
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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. 
