Legal counsel Quotes

“A gentleman at the Bar.”

“A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn.”

“You need not cite cases: 'Tis a principle.”

“You need not cite cases that are familiar.”

“First settle what the case is, before you argue it.”

“Don't you foist in a proposition which is not allowed.”

“I cannot allow that the counsel is the agent of the party.”

“I wish to uphold counsel in the exercise of their discretion.”

“It is the duty of all Courts to keep counsel to the points before them.”

“It is fit they should speak what they can for the advantage of their client.”

“It seems to me that the argument of the defendant's counsel blows hot and cold at the same time.”

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“The point now before us is a settled case, and therefore there is no need to enter into arguments about it.”

“In a common case, it is the usual course for the counsel to take the memorandums in his hand, for the cross-examination.”

“If any whimsical notions are put into you, by some enthusiastic counsel, the Court is not to take notice of their crotchets.”

“There is usually a decency about counsel which prevents them from pressing that to a conclusion which can never be concluded.”

“No counsel in the world that understand themselves, can argue anything against what has been often settled and always practised.”

“It is expected you should do your best for those you are assigned for, as it is expected in any other case, that you do your duty for your client.”

“And let not the counsel at the bar chop with the Judge, nor wind himself into the handling of the cause anew, after the Judge hath declared his sentence.”

“It has been always the practice heretofore, that when the Court have delivered their opinion, the counsel should sit down and not dispute it any further.”