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The Lawyers and The Field Code
April 30, 1885 issue

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There is an analogy between the profession of the law and that of arms: both exist from the necessity of fighting and yet their value is the highest when their existence averts fighting. As most soldiers look to war as the principal means of their advancement, so, it is thought, most lawyers view litigation with complacency; and whenever members of either profession have exerted themselves to lessen the occasions of controversy, their course has been recognized as patriotic and self-sacrificing. According to the common law there is nothing new under the sun, in the way of principles. It is of its very essence that every case as it arises shall be decided according to precedent.

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LAWYERS; SOLDIERS; LEGAL professions; ACTIONS & defenses; WAR; LEGISLATIVE bodies
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