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History of the American BAR on Informer Archiveshttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/Recent content by The InformerHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USThu, 30 Sep 2021 17:59:25 -0700The BAR in Americahttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/the-bar-in-america/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:39:46 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/the-bar-in-america/There has been so much written on the bar by the patriot community that is wrong that I went to a source that is impeccable. All that you will see on the following weeks that is added to this intro will come directly from Charles Warren, the author of The History of The American Bar. A lot of the material will confirm what has been said about attorneys and a lot will correct myths about attorneys.Introductory - Law Without Laywershttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/law-without-laywers/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:40:05 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/law-without-laywers/Introduction Law Without Lawyers NOTWITHSTANDING the various American Colonies were founded separately, each in its own peculiar mode, and were maintained as separate governments, having slight connection with each other in administration and little intercommunication in trade or otherwise until the early years of the Eighteenth Century, their usages and their institutions developed on closely parallel lines. In nothing is this more marked than in the history of their judicial organizations and of the constitution of their legal Bars.Laywers in the Seventeenth Centuryhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/laywers-in-the-seventeenth-century/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:40:36 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/laywers-in-the-seventeenth-century/Chapter I English Law, Law Books and Lawyers in the Seventeenth Century While the Common Law on its civil side had begun, by 1620, to provide fairly complete and even-handed justice as between one private citizen and another, (1) on its criminal side it was a source of horror to lovers of liberty and right, throughout the Seventeenth Century. Great judges, as a rule, were hardly possible under the arbitrary rule of the Stuarts or of Cromwell.The Colonial Bar of Virginia and Marylandhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/the-colonial-bar-of-virginia-and-maryland/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:41:14 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/the-colonial-bar-of-virginia-and-maryland/Chapter II The Colonial BAR of Virginia and Maryland Notwithstanding the early acceptance of the English Common Law as the basis for its own law, Virginia produced no trained Bar for nearly one hundred years. This condition was undoubtedly due to the fact that its governing class was practically a landed aristocracy, conservative and extremely jealous of any other power. The Colony, however, seems to have been troubled from an early date with the lower class of petty attorneys; and the problem of how to control these attorneys appears to have perplexed Virginia more than any other Colony.Colonial Massachusetts Barhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-massachusetts-bar/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:24:26 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-massachusetts-bar/Chapter III Colonial Massachusetts BAR The history of the legal profession in Massachusetts deserves, perhaps, a fuller statement than that of any other Colony, for two reasons – first, because of the richness of materials at hand in the shape of documents, records, contemporary letters, diaries and histories; and second, because of the fact that this Colony developed a larger and better organized Bar than any other in pre-Revolutionary days. Moreover, the extreme spirit of independence in its colonists on the one hand, the preponderating influence of the clergy among them on the other, and the existence within its borders of the largest college in the country, had an effect upon the course of its law and the growth of its Bar that differentiated its history in some respects from that of the others.Colonial New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey BARhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-new-york-pennsylvania-new-jersey-bar/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:41:52 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-new-york-pennsylvania-new-jersey-bar/Chapter IV Colonial New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey BAR New York, like Virginia, adopted the Common Law of England as the basis of its law at a very early date; but as in Virginia also, this did not lead to the early development of any trained Bar. There were two very strong obstacles to success in the legal profession - the supremacy of the merchant and land-holding class, who deplored the rise of any other influential body of men; and the constant interference in, and control of, litigation by the Royal Governors.Colonial Southern BARhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-southern-bar/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:42:24 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/colonial-southern-bar/Chapter V Colonial Southern BAR South Carolina In South Carolina, under its charter of 1663, a form of government and an institution of laws, courts and law procedure was initiated, which differed from anything in America. This was John Locke’s celebrated but chimerical Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, issued in 1669-1670 by the Proprietors. It provided for a most elaborate system of courts of eleven different kinds and jurisdictions; and it contained the-following curious limitation on the courts:New England Colonial BARhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/new-england-colonial-bar/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:42:48 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/new-england-colonial-bar/Chapter VI New England Colonial BAR CONNECTICUT The development of the law and of the Bar in Connecticut followed exactly, step by step, that of Massachusetts. Of the leaders in its settlement in 1636-1637, only three were men educated in the law,- Roger Ludlow, an Oxford graduate, a student in the Inner Temple in 1612, a member of the Court of Assistants in Massachusetts; Governor John Haynes, a man “very learned in the laws of England;” and Governor John Winthrop the younger, a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1624.Laywers in the Eighteenth Centuryhttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/laywers-in-the-eighteenth-century/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:40:36 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/laywers-in-the-eighteenth-century/Chapter VII The Law and Lawyers in England In the Eighteenth Century The Eighteenth Century in England was a period in which the law itself was being rapidly made, and great judges were making it. In 1689, Sir John Holt was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench; and in 1704 (a year before the birth of Lord Mansfield), he gave forth his epochal decision in Coggs v. Barnard (: Lord Raym.Early American Barristers and Bar Associationshttps://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/early-american-barristers-and-bar-associations/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:43:51 -0800https://www.informerarchives.com/the-informer/history-of-the-bar/early-american-barristers-and-bar-associations/Chapter IX Early American Barristers and Bar Associations The local law office does not account, however, for all the educated American lawyers of the Eighteenth Century. A far greater number than is generally known, received their legal education in London in the Inns of Court; and the influence, on the American Bar, of these English bred lawyers, especially in the more southerly Colonies, was most potent. The training which they received in the Inns,, confined almost exclusively to the Common Law, based as it was on historical precedent and customary law, the habits which they formed there of solving all legal questions by the standards of English liberties and of rights of the English subject, proved of immense value to them when they became later (as so many did become) leaders of the American Revolution.