text:  But if not content with pleading the statute of limitations for a client who employs the law to escape from a moral obligation he labours to convince the jury that in availing himself of this plea his client is acting in a very honourable or at least in no blamable manner; if by an artful colouring of the facts or by insinuations against other parties he contrives to lead the culprit in triumph through the court then we say that a baseness is committed by the advocate for which there is no excuse in the constitution of courts of justice nor in the subtleties of casuistry