Word: controls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...technical points for their clients, and the public press often sympathizes with and encourages this misdirected admiration. Of course, the best men in the practice of the law do not insist on technical points in favor of their clients, but rather waive them, and the best judges try to control counsel and direct the course of justice so far as state statutes permit. Unwise legislation is largely responsible for the particular evil now under consideration; and in recent years there has been much legislation intended to reduce the power of the judge over the procedure in his court. Lawyers dissatisfied...
Judges Lack Effective Control...
...Much of the injurious prolongation of testimony, cross-examination and argument in American courts is due to the fact that the judges have been deprived of effective control over counsel. It is an important function of a good judge to abbreviate testimony by excluding the irrelevant and to limit cross-examination and argument. To this end judges should be independent and well paid, appointed to serve during good behavior and efficiency, and entitled to a pension, after reasonably long service, or on disability. The judge should always be the principal person in the court-room. He is in England; often...
...Lecture on "The Sexual Instinct--its Abuse and Control," (to men only), by Dr. Edward H. Nichols, at Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...Edward Hall Nichols '86 will give the second lecture in the free public course at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The subject of the lecture, which is open to men only, is "The Sexual Instinct: its Abuse and Control...