TABLE OF CONTENTS. FRONTISPIECE-L. Q. C. LAMAR EDITOR'S PREFACE GENERAL MINUTES. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT..... ............. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON JURISPRUDENCE AND LAW REFORM....... 79 SYMPOSIUM: "OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM; IS IT DEFECTIVE? IF SO, WHEREIN?".......... REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION AND REMEDIAL PROCEDURE .................... .. .......... ......... 84 385 95 98 113 PAPER BY W. C. GLENN, "PRACTICAL USES OF THE ROMAN LAW"... ......... ............ ....... ......... 128 131 148 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NECESSITY FOR RELIEF OF SUPREME COURT. 197 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ETHICS...... DIGEST, BY JOHN W. AKIN, OF REASON FOR INCREASING NUMBER OF GENERAL MINUTES. FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. ATLANTA, GA., July 31, 1894. The Eleventh Annual Session of the Georgia Bar Association convened in the Superior Court room in Atlanta, Ga., at 10 A. M., Logan E. Bleckley, President; John W. Akin, Secretary. The President: The Association will come to order. The first business is the roll-call and reading of the minutes of the last meeting. W. Dessau: Mr. President, we have with us this morning a very distinguished gentleman from a sister State, the President of the State Bar Association of Tennessee. I move the suspension of the general order for the purpose of introducing to the Association Judge Henderson, of Tennessee. Carried. W. C. Glenn: Mr. President, there is also present a former Georgian, now holding a distinguished position in the State of Texas, Judge H. B. Green, of the Fortyeighth Texas Judicial District. I move he be also introduced. Carried. The President: Judge Henderson will please come forward and occupy the platform. (Judge Henderson complied.) Gentlemen of the Association, I have the pleasure of introducing to you our brother and friend, Judge Henderson, a former member of the Supreme Court of Tennessee and now the President of the Bar Association of that State. The Association arose to their feet and bowed, Judge Henderson also arising and bowing. The President: Will Judge Green please come forward? (Judge Green ascended the stand by the President.) Gentlemen of the Bar Association, I have the pleasure of now introducing to you a former resident of Georgia and member of this Bar, now one of the presiding judges of the State of Texas-Judge Green. The Association and Judge Green arose and bowed. The next business in order is the report of the Executive Committee. A. C. King submitted report. (See Appendix 1.) The President: Gentlemen, you have heard the report. What shall be done with it? If there is no objection it will be considered as received and adopted. All in favor of receiving and adopting the report will say aye. Carried. The President: The next business in order is rather a distressing stage of business with me, the President's address. Before entering on the official stage of the address, I wish to have a private and confidential conversation with the members of the Association individually. I think it will accord with your own experience that heredity sometimes results from an over-intent desire to be productive. I have experienced that in my endeavoring to make preparation for the address which I am expected to deliver. I have been well aware that on account of the accidental union in the same person of two such dignitaries as the Chief Justice and the President of the Georgia Bar Association great expectations have been aroused on this occasion. Indeed, to be frank and tell you the truth, for some time I entertained them myself. [Laughter.] And I made honest and strenuous efforts to meet and gratify such expectations, whether in my own mind or in the minds of others. But I have been doomed to a great disappointment myself, and it is a disappointment in which you must necessarily share. The address which I should have delivered was very voluminous, but I have left it all out. I have not brought it with me to-day. I have prepared it-indeed I have prepared half a dozen addresses, but none of them were satisfactory, and I have rejected them all except a very brief one which I shall read to you presently. I have got quite a mass of manuscript that has some bearing on various subjects. At one time I thought I would deliver an address under the title "An Address without a Subject," or "Several Subjects without an Address," I did not know exactly which to adopt. I was puzzled considerably and long. I have written on several subjects, but I was unable to satisfy myself; and I know if I would not be satisfied, you would not; and therefore I have left nearly everything out. In order to compensate for the brevity of the address itself, I have taken the liberty of innovating upon the usages of this Association, and I have presented something more than an address. By way of a supplement to my address I shall submit a report, so you will have a presidential address and a presidential report. [Laughter.] I now proceed to read these documents, and would beg your indulgence for the subject-matter of them and for their brevity, if brevity ever needs any indulence; I do not think it does. The subject of the address is "Causation," and the subject of the report is myself. INTRODUCTORY. Gentlemen of the Association: If I could realize my own ideal, whatever I produce would be in volume a fragment, in thought a volume. My model for all things that involve expression is condensed head-notes rather than expanded opinions. The labor of production should be done by the producer and not thrown upon the consumer. By labor I mean thought-work, not handicraft or alternate contraction and expansion of the muscles. A problem of first importance for the intellectual artist to solve is, how to put the most soul into the least body, how to represent the largest bulk of the immaterial by the smallest mass of the material. As I am no artist of any sort, of course I must fail, but attempts are educative, not only to those who make, but to those who witness them. |