 Johnson,) a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause, which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider,...  The Port Folio - Page 4971824Full view - About this book
 | Edward Manson - Judges - 1904 - 538 pages
...judgment; I prefer that of the court.' " This is just what Dr. Johnson said. " Sir," he said to Boswell, " a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the causes he undertakes. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. A lawyer... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - Law - 1919 - 216 pages
...during a conversation in the course of which one of the company, Sir William Forbes, remarked that " he thought an honest lawyer should never undertake...he was satisfied was not a just one." " Sir," said Johnson,2 " a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...respect, in giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled ' 177 ; prescription of murder 174, 214 ; a lawyer ' has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause ' 175 ; gratitude not found among gross people 315 ; cunning, its effect ' from the credulity of others... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 544 pages
...lucid and just. "Sir," said Dr. Johnson, in his famous talk with Boswell on the ethics of advocacy, "a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause wbich he undertakes unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 334 pages
...from Boswell which puts' the point with the greatest neatness. Boswell records Dr. Johnson as saying: "We talked of the practice of the law. Sir William...lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of tha cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it... | |
 | James Boswell - Scotland - 2006 - 722 pages
...declared she should have five hundred pounds of additional fortune. We talked of the practice of the law. William Forbes said, he thought an honest lawyer should...cause which he was satisfied was not a just one. 'Sir, 1 said Mr Johnson, 'a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes,... | |
 | 130 pages
...position of a lawyer as an advocate is as appropriate now as when it was uttered: ' ' Sir, " he said, ' ' a lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice... | |
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