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Updated: May 13, 2025

"My old friend Joseph H. Choate," he remarked, "in his memorial of his partner, Charles H. Southmayde, who was generally regarded as one of the greatest lawyers of our own or any other generation, says, 'The ever-growing list of misdemeanors, created by statute, disturbed him, and he even employed counsel to watch for such statutes introduced into the legislature mantraps, as he called them lest he might, without knowing it, commit offenses which might involve the penalty of imprisonment."

Arthur Cheney Train - By Advice of Counsel