 | Henry Kett - 1825 - Počet stránok 298
...allowed to speak decidedly as to my own profession ; and so I hesitate not to pronounce, that every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for a client.' SERVANTS. 828. IT was an observation of Elwes the noted miser, That if you keep one servant, your work... | |
 | 1841 - Počet stránok 490
...the argument: but we quote the facts for another purpose—to illustrate Lord Mansfield's doctrine, that" a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client." " I once had an opportunity of watching the progress of a single redemption suit, which... | |
 | William Bodenhamer - 1855 - Počet stránok 300
...allowed to speak decidedly as to my own profession, and so I hesitate not to pronounce, that every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for a client. The author has addressed this small work in an especial manner to the general reader, rather than to... | |
 | 1862 - Počet stránok 542
...to them that in some cases Friendly Societies have illustrated the truth of a proverh which affirms that " a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client." The decision of t That itJ(according to the interpretation clause of the Eankruptcy Amendment... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 370
...main, it is well done, for the profession does not admit of quackery. It is a snying among lawyers, that "a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client ;" hut there are very few fools of this description in the world. Sometimes a man who is not a lawyer... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 548
...agreements, and mercantile agencies and collection bureaus are numerous. He remarks: "Tho old adage that ' a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,' is not nearly so true as it was some years ago. Many young men have graduated from the law schools... | |
 | 1883 - Počet stránok 552
...agreements, and mercantile agencies and collection bureaus are numerous. He remarks: "The old adage that ' a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client,' is not nearly so true as it was some years ago. Many young men have graduated from the law schools... | |
 | 1872 - Počet stránok 222
...a false pathology. A celebrated jurist once said of laymen who attempt to conduct their own cases, "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client." In the same sense, a man who is his own doctor has a fool for a patient, and it is best to let such... | |
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As a mode of defense autobiography is a failure; it too often confirms the old saying, that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. 
