Originally Posted by Flying Guy
If it is just a job, become a Lawyer.
[quote= If it is just a job, become a Lawyer.
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In 1599 there was a case (Bruce v Hamilton) "In Commendam" before the Court of Session in Edinburgh. One litigant was a friend of King James VI. The case was going against the King's friend, so "... the King came in person to the Tolbooth and persuaded the voting against Mr Robert and in a manner commanded it". "The King being there is his contrary was angry and raged at it..."
"The President [Lord President Seton] stood up ... and [told the King]that he was their King and they his subjects .... but that in the matter of law and conscience, being sworn to justice, they would do as their consciences led them".
If the King tried to force them otherwise, said the President, he would " ... pen [the judgment] in Latin, French and Greek to be sent to all the judges in the world to be approved, and that by his vote it shall never be reversed. And so say the whole Session [that is, the fifteen Lords of Session]"
This to a 16th century monarch who believed in Divine Right. Just a job, you say? For the past forty years Lord President Seton has been watching over my shoulder.