Excerpt from A Treatise on Attorneys and Counsellors at Law: Comprising the Rules and Legal Principles Applicable to the Vocation of the Lawyer, and Those Governing the Relation of Attorney and Client The Athenian courts. 3. Roman judges, advocates, etc. 4. Patron and client. 5. The jurisconsults. 6. The Roman lawyers under the empire. Lawyers in the Middle Ages. The bar in France. 9. The modern bar of France. 10. Avoue's and avocats. 11. Qualifications for admission. 12. Appointment of attorneys. 13. Discipline and independence of the French Advocates in England. 15. The Inns of Court. 16. Regulations as to legal education. 17. Admission of students. 18. Keeping terms. 19. Calling to the bar. 20. Certificates to practice under the bar. Lectures and examinations. Lawyers in Scotland. The profession in the United States. Legal instruction in the United States. Difference between the English and American bar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.