 | 1795 - 758 頁
...Clarke and Son. It is an old law adage, copied from the Italian proverb of Che s'infegna, &c. that the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. If he undertakes, of choice, to become fo in making his will, he feems to us to verify the proverb... | |
 | 1840 - 604 頁
...teach any man who is not a fool to take care of his own constitution, it is a manifest fallacy. If every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for his client, he who is his own physician, has not a whit more of a wise man for his patient ; and in this sense,... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1825 - 298 頁
...but I may be 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,... | |
 | William Clarke - 1830 - 316 頁
...of the lease, as to render the house unfit for his purpose; or that the restrictions may inmaxim, " That every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for...period of a whole life to be expended in its service, before its votaries can pretend to a sufficient knowledge of its mysteries and provisions. It must... | |
 | 1830 - 614 頁
...brought to bear upon terms and phrases which are deemed equivocal and inexplicit. lie seems to think " that every man who is his own lawyer, has a fool for his client." It does not however appear, that Mr. Dickson supposes all cases to be thus ex posed to risks and difficulties,... | |
 | 1838 - 488 頁
...if not, send another." But beware of extending this to lawbusiness, for it is also written — " The man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client." " The d — 1's luck to you" is a proverbial wish amongst the common people, when they bear an ill-will ;... | |
 | 1841 - 490 頁
...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 occupied the... | |
 | 1841 - 578 頁
...subject for the genius of the modern Moliere — the inexhaustible Scribe. If it be allowed that the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client, it must be as obvious that he who is his own apothecary has for his patient an individual equally devoid... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 788 頁
...by the petitioner. I fully appreciate, my Lords, the force of that proverb which tells us that the man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. I therefore would not trust to my own interpretation of the Statutes in question. I had recourse to... | |
 | 1849 - 544 頁
...case, well remarks, that " In Civil Courts it is a maxim, justified by every day's experience, that the man -who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client. Military Courts would , practically enforce an opposite doctrine." Not only the military, but many... | |
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To this he never yielded for an instant. Alas, in this age numbers of men are setting up to be their own inspired writers. I have been told that every man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client... 
