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Essays in legal ethics
Excerpt from Essays in Legal Ethics
This little book is a compend of lectures delivered at various times to my own students and has been produced in response to numerous requests for publication. I have endeavored to treat the subject as an integral part of undergraduate study and to confine it within the lines of the regular law course. But little space has been devoted to ethical theory, the design of the work being rather an exposition of ethical precept, and only the practical phases of accepted modern theories have been presented. The legal aspects of practice, and questions arising thereon, have been touched only incidentally and then in briefest terms.
To a large extent professional conduct, like all other forms of ethical affirmation, is a matter of opinion, yet, in many of its manifestations, we may discern underlying principles that seem to compel the rule. Whenever possible I have endeavored to show this principle in connection with the rule that is founded upon it. In stating a rule or precept I have uniformly presented that which seems to have received the largest amount of adherence and whenever opportunity offered have reinforced same by a citation of judicial authority. These latter opportunities have necessarily been few.
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This little book is a compend of lectures delivered at various times to my own students and has been produced in response to numerous requests for publication. I have endeavored to treat the subject as an integral part of undergraduate study and to confine it within the lines of the regular law course. But little space has been devoted to ethical theory, the design of the work being rather an exposition of ethical precept, and only the practical phases of accepted modern theories have been presented. The legal aspects of practice, and questions arising thereon, have been touched only incidentally and then in briefest terms.
To a large extent professional conduct, like all other forms of ethical affirmation, is a matter of opinion, yet, in many of its manifestations, we may discern underlying principles that seem to compel the rule. Whenever possible I have endeavored to show this principle in connection with the rule that is founded upon it. In stating a rule or precept I have uniformly presented that which seems to have received the largest amount of adherence and whenever opportunity offered have reinforced same by a citation of judicial authority. These latter opportunities have necessarily been few.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
234 pages, Unknown Binding
First published December 20, 2010
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