, 1872-02-22
Professional Department.

Professional Department.
The following are portion of the
rules laid down in g Hoffman's Course
of Legal Study" "by adherence tc
which the lawyer msy reasonably hope
to attain eminence in his profession:
l. will never permit professional
zeal to carry me beyond the limits Of
propriety and deeorum, but bear in
mind, with Sir Edward Coke, that "if a
river swell beyond its banks, it loseth
its own channel"
2. will espouse no mans cause out
Of envy, hatred, or malice, toward his
antagonist.
8. To all judges, when in court, I will
ever be respectful they are the Laws
vicegerents; and whatever may be their
character and deportment, the individu-
al should be lost in the majesty of the
office.
4. Should judges, while on the bench,
forget that, as an officer of the court, 1
have rights, and treat me with disrespect,
shall value myself too highly to deal
with them in like manner. A firm and
temperate remonstrance is all that I will
ever allow myself.
s. In all intercourse with my profess
sional brethren, I will be always courte-
ous. No mans passions shall intimi-
date me from asserting fully my own or
my clients rights; and no mans igno-
rance or folly shall induce me to take
any advantage of him; I shall deal with
them all as honorable men, ministering
at our common altar. Butan act of un-
equivocal meanness or dishonesty, tho
it shall wholly sever any personal rela-
ton that may subsist between us, shall
produce no change in my department
when brought IN professional connection
with them; my clients rights and not
my own feelings are then alone to oe
consulted.
6. To the various officers of the court
I will be studiously respectful, and spe-
cially 1egardful of their rights and priv
ileges.
Z. As general rule, will not allow
myself to be engaged in a cause to the
exclusion of, or even participation with,
the counsel previously engaged, unless
at his own special instance. in union
with his clients wishes: and it must,
indeed, be strong case of gross neg.
lect or of fatal inability in the counsel,
that shall induce me to take the cause to
myself.
8. If have ever had any connection
with cause, I will never permit myself
(when that connection is from any rea.
son severely to be engaged on the side
of my former antagonist. Nor shall any
change in the former aspect of the cause
induce me to regard it as ground of
exception. 1t is poor apology for be-
ing found on the opposite side, that the
present is but the ghost Of the former
cause.
9. Any promise or pledge made by me
to the adverse counsel shall be strictly
adhered to by me: nor shall the subse-
quent instructions of my client induce
me to depart from it, unless am well
it was made in error; or that
the rights of my client would be materi-
ally impaired by its performance.
10. Should my client be disposed to
insist on captious requisitions, or friv-
olous and vexatious defenses, they shall
be neither enforced or countenanced by
me. And if still adhered to by him
from q hope of pressing the other party
into an unjust compromise, or with any
other motive, he shall have the option
to select other counsel.
II. If, after duly examining the case,
I am persuaded that my clients claim
Or defence Gas the case may be) cannot,
Dr rather ought not to be sustained, I
will promptly advise him to abandon it.
70 press it further in such Q case, with
he hope of cleaning some advantage by
IN extorted compromise, would be lend
ing himself to . disAanorahle use OF le-
gal means, in'gsining q portion Of that
he whole of WHICH have reason to be-
ieye would Be de4ied to him both By ]
av and jnsfica. Z
-, i will never plead the Statute Of
Limitations, when bassd On thsm1rs
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