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firm foundation of plain living and high thinking. His opinions, therefore, obtained a careful and favourable hearing from the elders, and had he lived longer he would have. succeeded in promoting the cause of social and religious reforms in a very satisfactory manner.
Lallubhai was also of a very jovial disposition and sweet manners. He treated with uniform kindness and courtesy the members of the Bar appearing before him. With all this he was intensely practical in his ways and actions, and it was always a pleasure to learn his advice on all matters of difficulty. His superior officers all liked him for his sound legal acumen and able penetration into the facts of all the cases which came before him for hearing.
In fact it may be said without any exaggeration that the deceased possessed in a very high degree all the following qualities of an eminent judge mentioned by Chapman and Shirley
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"A judge-a man so learn'd,
So full of equity, so noble, so notable;
In the process of his life so innocent; In the manage of his office so incorrupt; In the passages of state so wise; in Affection of his country so religious; In all his services to the king so Fortunate and exploring, as envy Itself can not accuse, or malice vitiate."
Had Providence spared him, Lallubhai would have
gradually risen to a very high position in the Bhavnagar State but all our expectations have been cruelly frustrated and the only service we can now render to the deceased is to pray that his kind and benign soul may rest in everlasting Peace.
