Professors of the law : barristers and English legal culture in the eighteenth century / David Lemmings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemmings, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Lawyers.

Inns of Court--History--18th century.

Inns of Court.

Practice of law--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Practice of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What happened to the culture of common law and English barristers in the long eighteenth century? In this wide-ranging sequel to Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730, David Lemmings not only anatomizes the barristers and their world; he also explores the popular reputation and self-image of the law and lawyers in the context of declining popular participation in litigation, increased parliamentary legislation, and the growth of theimperial state. He shows how the bar survived and prospered in a century of low recruitment and declining work, but failed to f

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Abbreviations; 1. INTRODUCTION: TWO STORIES OF LAW; i. Historians, the law, and eighteenth-century society; ii. Another story of law: the reputation of lawyers and the courts; 2. THE WORK OF THE BAR AND WORKING LIFE; i. Advocacy and pleading: the shape of barristers' work; ii. Counselling and conveyancing; iii. Everyday life; 3. BARRISTERS AND PRACTISERS: NUMBERS AND PROSPECTS; i. Barristers and non-practisers; ii. Practisers: supply and demand; iii. The characteristics of litigation: Westminster Hall in crisis?

iv. Prospects for barristers: keeping life going4. GENTLEMEN BRED TO THE LAW: INDUCTION AND LEGAL EDUCATION; i. Motives and qualifications, hopes and dreams; ii. The failure of institutions: 'education' at the universities and the inns; iii. 'A dry and disgusting study': learning the law; iv. A cultural challenge?; 5. PRACTICE AT THE CENTRE: WESTMINSTER HALL AND ITS SATELLITES; i. Starting out: launching a practice; ii. Winners and losers: the distribution of work in Westminster Hall; iii. Getting on: practices, fees, and incomes; 6. PRACTICE AT THE MARGINS: THE OLD BAILEY AND THE COLONIES

i. Tribunes of the people: the Old Bailey barii. Ireland and America: colonial bars and barristers; iii. Law, lawyers, and 1776: contrasting American attorneys and English barristers; 7. ADVANCEMENT AND INDEPENDENCE; i. Rank and status at the inns of court: 'internal' promotion; ii. Patronage, politics, and office: 'external' promotion; iii. Serving the state? The 'independence' of bar and bench; 8. CONCLUSION: THE CULTURE OF THE BAR AND RECESSION OF THE COMMON LAW; i. Collective life and rituals; ii. Self-images: collective self-esteem and legitimating concepts

iii. Consequences? The failure of the bar and recession of common lawAPPENDICES; A. Methodology and Biographical Notes for Barrister Samples, 1719-1721 and 1769-1771; B. A Prescription for Educating a Barrister, 1736; C. Leading Counsel in King's Bench, Exchequer, Common Pleas, and Chancery, 1720, 1740, 1770, and 1790; D. A Junior Barrister's Complaints about the Selection and Advantages of King's Counsel, 1750; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-154271-7

0-585-37279-9

1-280-44533-5

OCLC:

48139910