The “Lower Branches” of the Legal Profession: A London Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of the 1730s and its “Moots”1

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-2139|49|3|461-490

ISSN: 0008-1973

Source: Cambridge Law Journal, Vol.49, Iss.3, 1990-11, pp. : 461-490

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Abstract

The history in the eighteenth century of attorneys and solicitors—those who “practiced the forms or ‘mechanics’ of the law”—was first investigated in depth in Robert Robson's monograph of 1959. More recently, and following upon Geoffrey Holmes's suggestive survey of the lawyers in Augustan England, articles by M. Miles and A. Aylett have enlarged our knowledge of the social origins and geographical distribution of attorneys over the century as a whole and offered detailed analyses of attorneys' business in the West Riding and Cheshire during the latter half of the century.