...universal habit of resorting to it, where the means of payment exist; and also by such proverbs as, " He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client."* * Men obey willingly a person whom they consider wiser than themselves. For example, the sick are anxious...

...sceleratos, non scelera.'(K) ' Imperitise signum est, quod difficillimmn est, exigere cito fieri.(n) ' He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.' ' Better late than never.' ' Mai delibera chi troppo teme.' ' Seditio civium hostium est occasio.'(6')...

...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. The author has addressed this small work in an especial manner to the general reader, rather than to the...

...is another auxiliary, one in the hands of the lawyers themselves, but it has passed into a proverb, that he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. It ie truly surprising the amount of indifference the profession as a body show by their eupinexteae...

...in it, the character of the accused is his best defense from the aspersion. There is an old motto, He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. It is of wide application. He who is smarting under an unjust accusation is by that very fact unfitted...

...faith in any of the "every-manhis-own-doctor" treatises. It is a proverb with the legal fraternity that " he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client;" and the proverb, slightly modified, is equally applicable to the man or woman who attempts to substitute...

...faith in any of the "every-manhis-own-doctor" treatises. It is a proverb with the legal fraternity that " he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client;" and the proverb, slightly modified, is equally applicable to the man or woman who attempts to substitute...

...lawyers, that a woman cannot successfully conduct a lawsuit, and of disproving that time-honored maxim, that "he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client." The bill before the legislature entitled "An act defining the duties of receivers, of insolvent insurance...

...triumphantly his own cause before the House of Lords, thereby practically refuting the trite paradox that he who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Assuredly his sledge-hammer letters on the Penge case, which loosened the prison bars and relaxed the...

...modifier — whether the latter is necessary to the main thought or only explanatory. Thus, compare: He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. - J There are moral principles slumbering in the most deSwift asserts that no man ever wished himself...