QUESTION 71

OF INJUSTICE IN JUDGMENT ON THE PART OF COUNSEL

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider the injustice which takes place in judgment on

the part of counsel, and under this head there are four points of

inquiry:

(1) Whether an advocate is bound to defend the suits of the poor?

(2) Whether certain persons should be prohibited from exercising the

office of advocate?

(3) Whether an advocate sins by defending an unjust cause?

(4) Whether he sins if he accept a fee for defending a suit?

_______________________

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province · 第 479 / 1128 题