When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.... If the owner was present, there shall be no restitution; if it was hired, only the hiring fee is due.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emper...or a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of mo...ney to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it ...as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are mo...re than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »