Secundum ea, quae proponuntur, existimo, placet, puto. -
(Adams' Roman Antiquities, 201.)
Lawyers gave their opinions either by word of mouth or in writing,
commonly without any reasons annexed, but not always.
The lawyers of these days do not, as a rule, see their clients quite so
early in the morning as those of Rome did.
Agricolam laudat juris legumque peritus
Sub galli cantum, consultor ubi ostia pulsat.
Romae dulce diu fuit et solemne, reclusa
Mane domo vigilare, clienti promere jura.
[24] La Hontan, I., 21 (Ed. 1705). In some editions the above is expressed
in different language - (From Parkman's Old Regime, p. 270.)
[25] It lines a space in rear, on which the Imperial Government erected,
for the British troops in garrison, the Military Hospital. Since 1872, it
is used as a temporary Court House, in lieu of the old Court House, built
in 1814, and destroyed by fire in 1871. A high wall to the south-east,
encloses a lofty eminence surmounted by a flagstaff - the Mont Carmel
mentioned by La Potherie, Charlevoix and other old writers. The French had
a Cavalier here. A little Eden of flowers, adjacent to the residence of
the member for the County of Quebec, Hon. Adolphe P. Caron, Minister of
Militia, and son of the late Lieutenant-Governor, Hon. R. E. Caron, now
enlivens this eminence. On the same side of the street, about one hundred
feet to the east, facing Parloir street, still exists a high-peaked old
tenement, to which a livery stable is attached.
