...in the subscription of a letter; a servant's denying his master; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth...

...the subscription of a letter ; a servant's denying his master ; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances, no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth...

...the subscription of a letter ; a servant's denying hit master ; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances, no confidence M destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth...

...doubt whether the profession of an advocate can be pursued without the sacrifice of integrity. * " Some Moralists have ranked with the cases in which...supersedes the general rule of truth, an Advocate asserting 8 Whewell's Elements of Morality. [July, the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client's...

...misfortune, have met with a warmer admiration, in the cases in which they are narrated. Such for instancexvas the falsehood told by Grotius's wife to save her husband,...to be given. But we reply by asking, If there is no mu. » Paley, B. in. c. 15. tual understanding that he shall speak truly, to what purpose does he speak,...

...which he was contained as a box of theological books. 399. But when such falsehoods which thus save ft friend from ruin are accompanied with some great foreseen...the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his Client s cause*. As a reason why he may do this, though he believe otherwise, it is said that no promise...

...connected with this? 18. How far do you consider Paley's statement, that the assertion of an advocate of 'the justice or his belief in the justice of his client's cause' comes under the case of falsehoods which are not lies, to be true? "Would his grounds for this justify...

...length ; — " Some moralists," says he, " have ranked with the cases in which convention supersedes 43 the general rule of truth, an advocate asserting the...his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. Those who contend for such indulgence argue that the profession is an instrument for the administration...

...subscription of a letter; a servant's denying his master [to be at home] ; a prisoner's pleading not guilty ; an advocate asserting the justice, or his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. In such instances, no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed ; no promise to speak the truth...

...Moral and -Political Science, which deserve to be quoted at length : " Some moralists," says he, " have ranked with the cases in which convention supersedes...his belief in the justice, of his client's cause. Those who contend for such indulgence argue that the profession is an instrument for the administration...