A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London CourtsLeaming, Thomas
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A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts
Leaming, Thomas
Courts -- Great Britain; Lawyers -- Great Britain
Nisi Prius, sittings frequent, 105
Offices of barristers in Inns, 18
Old age pensions, 181
Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court), 131
Oxford students, exemptions of, 25
Parliamentary Bar, 40
Partnerships of barristers forbidden, 61
Pensions, old age, 181
Police courts, 125
Porter's Horn, 17
Practice of barristers, 58
before masters, 117
Rules of, 89
Preliminary hearing in Police Courts, 125
Preparation of case by solicitor, 4
"President" of Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, 88
Prison fever, 131
Privy Council, judicial committee of, 113
Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of High Court, 93
Procedure in county courts, 173
Provincial courts, 169
Reading of English law student, 25
Recorder, a criminal judge, 132
Registrars' courts, 174
Registrar, a solicitor, 175
Reports of cases, 72
Robes, Judges', 3
of Judges' Chancery Division, 93
of King's Counsel, 44
Rules of practice, 89
Russell, Sir Charles, fees of, 60
Salaries of judges, 63-95
of Judges, County Courts, 173
of Masters, 117
Serjeants-at-law, 23
Common, a criminal judge, 132
Inn, 13-23
Inn, present use of, 23
Shakespeare, production of "Twelfth Night" in Temple, 14
Sheriffs, duties in Criminal Court, 132
"Silk," "taking of," 33
Smith, Sir Thomas, definition of "gentleman," 10
Socialistic legislation, 184
Solicitors, 49
"Agents," 169
Bags of, 55
Become registrars, 175
Develop into advocates, 174
Discipline of, 67
Dress of, 55
Fees of, 64
Have no Inn of Court, 27
Incorporated Law Society governs training of solicitors, 27
Prepare cases, 4
Sphere of, 50
Training of, 12-27
"Well," 3
Special Juries, 92
"Specials" in the Chancery Courts, 40
List of, 42
Staple's Inn (Chancery), 23
Strand Inn (Chancery), 23
Students, training of, 25
Supreme Court of Judicature, 87
"Taking Silk," 33
Templars, Knights; use of land of, by Inns of Court, 13
Temple, Church of, 14
Inner, 13
Library of, 14
Middle, 13
Tender of damages in tort cases, 122
Thavie's Inn (Chancery), 23
Trade Guilds organized, 19
Treasurer, executive officer of Inn of Court, 21
Term of, 21
Trial, 31-74
Absence of "Leader" in, 32
In Admiralty, 104
Before Master, 118
Of criminal cases, 136
"Trinity Masters," 94
"Twelfth Night," produced in Temple, 14
Vacations of courts, 74
"Weepers," 44
"White Book," 68
Wigs, 45
Barristers' described, 5
Witness Box, situation of, 3
Witnesses, demeanor of, 6
Women, not eligible to Bar, 26
Workingmen's Compensation Acts, 179
Transcriber's Notes:
The spelling "Sergeant" appears once in this text on page 134,
otherwise the word is spelled and indexed as "Serjeant."
There is a separate transcriber's at the end of the Table of
Counsel that appears in Chapter IV.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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