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 | David Ramsay - 1809 - 642 pages
...good and evil, but which would have preponderated is questionable. The 70th article declares " that it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ;" and that no one should be permitted to plead another man's cause, not a relation, " till he took... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 588 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. LXX. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be... | |
 | François-Xavier Martin - 1829 - 472 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. 70. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 542 pages
...unnecessary litigation, it was (with a simplicity, which at this time may excite a smile) provided, that " it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; " and that " since multiplicity of comments, as well as of laws, have great inconveniences, and serve... | |
 | Bartholomew Rivers Carroll - 1836 - 590 pages
...necessary they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. LXX. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than a cousin-german to the party concerned)... | |
 | South Carolina - 1836 - 476 pages
...freehold. In the Proprietor's courts, no man shall be a juryman under five hundred awes of freehold. ?0th. It shall be a base and vile thing, to plead for money, or reward ; nor shall any one, (except he be a near kinsman, nor farther off' than cousin german to the party concerned)... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - 1851 - 644 pages
...regarded. By the fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669), drawn np by John Locke, it was declared " to be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward" in any of the courts of law. One of the complaints of the Assembly against Gov. Dobbs, in 1760, was... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1858 - 600 pages
...good and evil, but which would have preponderated is questionable. The 70th article declares "that it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward :'' and that no one should be permitted to plead another man's cause, not a relation, " till he took... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1858 - 624 pages
...not required to be unanimous in their verdict; a majority might find a verdict. It was declared to " be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ;" and no one, unless he were a near kinsman, and not further removed in relationship than a cousin-german,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 610 pages
...an independent Senate. Again, one of the most curious provisions of Locke's constitutions is this: " It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward : nor shall any one (except he be near kinsman, not further off than cousingerman to the party concerned,) be permitted... | |
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