There are few of the business relations of life involving a higher trust and confidence than that of attorney and client, or, generally speaking, one more honorably and faithfully discharged; few more anxiously guarded by the law, or governed by sterner principles of morality and justice; and it is the duty of the court to administer them in a corresponding spirit, and to be …

The duty of an attorney to the client must be discharged honorably and faithfully, governed by the most exacting principles of morality and justice.

—inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter if the protection such statute, regulation, order, or interpretation affords any person is greater than the protection provided under this subchapter....” The ABA aptly points out that “the nature of the attorneyclient relationship distinguishes the practice of law from commercial relationships such as the financial institution …

—the Court held that an attorney had violated the obligation he owed to his client when he purchased the client's former plantation and the enslaved people who had worked it from the clients' creditor, against whose claims the lawyer had been hired to defend.

Proper remedy for a complainant, in such a case, is to except to the answer for insufficiency within the period prescribed by the sixty-first rule; but if he does not avail himself of that right, the answer is deemed sufficient to prevent the bill from being taken pro confesso, as it may be if no answer is filed.

The validity of the assignments over the claim of the plaintiff was maintained by the judgment of the court below, and which was affirmed on appeal to this court.