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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...see that his client have justice. So considered, an advocate in his own person gains no honor by pleading for the just, nor suffers dishonor by pleading for the unjust: he is neither exalted if his client be of the honorable of the earth, nor debased if he be of the offscouring of it. And such is the nature and chance of forensic warfare, so much does it incline to opposition and con-_ trast, that the advocate who is now pleading for the just, may, on the very next trial, plead for the unjust: he who has now closed his brief for a defendant whose victory gives joy to a crowded court, may next represent a defendant whose defeat the same audience, with an opposite joy, exult in. He who runs in a race may fairly run as fast as he can; but he is not justified in tripping up his competitor, or pushing him down.--Cie. Of. iii, 10. An advocate, as the representative of his client and his organ of speech, can, so far as the law would permit his client to do, advance and maintain any religious, political, or other theory, tenet, or doctrine of his client, however unreasonable, absurd, or fanciful it may be. And in doing this, if the advocate says wha't he himself does not think, what his own judgment does not ap prove of, or perhaps condemns, he will, secretly at least, wish it to be understood at the time that he is not uttering his own opinions, but only those of his client; and, the cause being ended, he will be at full liberty to repudiate for himself personally any part or the whole of what he has said professionally only for his client; and, in such a case, to object afterwards against the advocate, that the language he used exhibits his own personal principles, views, or sentiments, would be simply folly. This distinction...

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