Author: Leon Mead Publisher: ISBN: 9781330882610 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 222
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Excerpt from Manual of Forensic Quotations Forensic eloquence is the most popular, and at the same time the most evanescent, of all public speech. That so few of the great speeches of legal advocates have been preserved is not due to their lack of those inherent qualities which make eloquence live, but rather to the temporary occasion and the transient uses for which they are made. There is no Congressional Record to embody in perpetual form the dialogue and repartee of the court-room, or to spread before the public in legible character the speeches of counsel to the gentlemen of the jury. Rarely are legal addresses in jury cases prepared in advance, and, being the extemporaneous outpouring of the immediate thought and feeling of the speaker, there exists no copy to which posterity can go. Fortunately, however, not all the great speeches of great advocates have been lost upon the air of their first deliverance. The speeches of Demosthenes and Cicero are most valued treasures in classic literature, and models of the art of advocacy as well. It is the English-speaking Bar, however, that has abounded most in examples of brilliant and moving eloquence. The English advocate and his American brother belong to a system of jurisprudence in which the functions of moving speech have the largest play. Their duties call them to the maintenance and defense of life and liberty, of property and reputation. The dearest and most valuable rights of mankind are submitted to the arbitrament of jury trial. 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.
Author: Leon Mead Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781356075607 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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Author: Leon Mead Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781500190019 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 222
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QUITE a novel idea in incorporated In the volume entitled as abova and edited by Leon Mead and F. N. Gilbert. The novelty of it is the grouping together under alphabetical legal heads of a large number of appropriate quotations from the addressed of great lawyers discussing questions related to the various subject-headings. Thus, under the heading of "Self-Defense" is a quotation from a speech to the jury by Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, in defense of H. C. Black, Frederick City, Md., April 1st, 1871, as follows: “The law of self-defense is written in the heart of man more plainly and powerfully than in the pages of libraries. We here place our feet on its solid and eternal foundations. We build upon it a house of refuge for the prisoner, which will withstand the fury of the storm and the malice of his enemies He was not called upon to retreat I spurn the doctrine of being driven to the wall or the ditch, that odious doctrine of degradation, danger, and death to the assaulted party. Every inch of ground on which he stood was his own. Who had the right to command him to yield it? The free air around him was his wall, and he who sought to drive him further embraced the peril of his own lawlessness.” Hon. John W. Griggs writes the introduction to this work in which he uses this language. "The dearest and most valuable rights of mankind are submitted to the arbitrament of trial jury. Jurors are men "of the vicinage;" in the language of the ancient venire, liberi et legalet homines—men of ordinary everyday capacity, subject to all the prejudices, to all the passions, to all the emotions of the human mind. They can be reasoned with; they can be inflamed, made indignant or merciful, generous or severe, unjust or righteous in their verdicts, as they are moved to one sentiment or another by the art of the advocate who is a master of eloquence. It is to the jury that the contesting litigants mutually appeal for the final adjustment of their conflicting claims. So that the lawyer who speaks in such a case is no mere academic orator, aiming to produce fine sentences and swelling periods that will look well in print next day, but one who has a direct and single object before him—to convince the judgment and secure the assent of the twelve men in the jury-box to the correctness of his client's cause. Here, then, we might expect, and here, in fact, we shall find, eloquence in its least artificial form—where reasoning is most persuasive, where emotion is most real, and where all the arts of rhetoric, learning, wit, humor, irony, sarcasm, indignation, denunciation are employed in the most genuine and natural manner." —The Central Law Journal, Vol. 57 [1903]
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