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To: SBurton3@aol.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Counselor at Law
I am a Counselor at Law.
Confer at "Counsellor at Law" in
Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1856)
(see below).
See, in particular, the things
which motivate the conduct of
a Counsellor at Law, according
to Bouvier. I've appended the
definition to the end of this
message, FYI.
Enjoy!
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
At 08:07 PM 6/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
> Dear Paul,
>
> I don't think you are bad,just because you are a lawyer, the lowest
>profession
>just below the oldest profession.
> Keep up the great work and best wishes!!
>
> joe 6pk
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COUNSELLOR AT LAW, offices. An officer in the supreme court of
the United States, and in some other courts, who is employed by a
party in a cause, to conduct the same on its trial on his behalf.
He differs from an attorney at law. (q. v.)
2. In the supreme court of the United States, the two degrees
of attorney and counsel are kept separate, and no person is
permitted to practise both. It is the duty of the counsel to
draft or review and correct the special pleadings, to manage the
cause on trial, and, during the whole course of the suit, to
apply established principles of law to the exigencies of the
case. 1 Kent, Com. 307.
3. Generally in the other courts of the United States, as well
as in the courts of Pennsylvania, the same person performs the
duty of counsellor and attorney at law.
4. In giving their advice to their clients, counsel and others,
professional men have duties to perform to their clients, to the
public, and to themselves. In such cases they have thrown upon
them something which they owe to the fair administration of
justice, as well as to the private interests of their employers.
The interests propounded for them ought, in their own
apprehension, to be just, or at least fairly disputable; and
when such interests are propounded, they ought not to be pursued
per fas et nefas . Hag. R. 22.
5. A counsellor is not a hired person, but a mandatory; he
does not render his services for a price, but an honorarium,
which may in some degree recompense his care, is his reward.
Doubtless, he is not indifferent to this remuneration, but nobler <--!!!
motives influence his conduct. Follow him in his study when he
examines his cause, and in court on the trial; see him identify
himself with the idea of his client, and observe the excitement
he feels on his account; proud when he is, conqueror,
discouraged, sorrowful, if vanquished; see his whole soul
devoted to the cause he has undertaken, and which he believes to
be just, then you perceive the elevated man, ennobled by the
spirit of his profession, full of sympathy for his cause and his
client. He may receive a reward for his services, but such things
cannot be paid for with money. No treasures can purchase the
sympathy and devotedness of a noble mind to benefit humanity;
these things are given, not sold. See Honorarium. 6. Ridley says,
that the law has appointed no stipend to philosophers and lawyers
not because they are not reverend services and worthy of reward
or stipend, but because either of them are most honorable
professions, whose worthiness is not to be valued or dishonored
by money. Yet, in these cases many things are honestly taken,
which are not honestly asked, and the judge may, according to the
quality of the cause, and the still of the advocate, and the
custom of the court, and, the worth of the matter that is in
hand, appoint them a fee answerable to their place. View of the
Civil and Eccles. Law, 38, 39.
A LAW DICTIONARY
ADAPTED TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND OF THE
SEVERAL STATES OF THE AMERICAN UNION
With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law
by
John Bouvier
Ignoratis terminis ignoratur et ars. - Co. Litt. 2 a.
Je sais que chaque science et chaque art a ses termes
propres, inconnu au commun des hommes. - Fleury
SIXTH EDITION, REVISED, IMPROVED, AND GREATLY ENLARGED.
VOL. I.
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1856
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-nine, BY JOHN BOUVIER, In the Clerk's
Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-three, BY JOHN BOUVIER, In the Clerk's
Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
_____________________________
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-eight, BY JOHN BOUVIER, In the Clerk's
Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.
_____________________________
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two, BY ELIZA BOUVIER and ROBERT E.
PETERSON, Trustees, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Deacon & Peterson, Printers
66 South Third Street.
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