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 Lawyers and Law Practice. tarn, significans in corde suo quod omnia sunt manifesta Deo. Stultus autem credebat quod volebat dare alapam sibi, et incontinenti ostendit ei pugnum clausum, significans quod si vis mihi dare alapam, ego repercutiam te pugno clauso. At Graecus sapiens intellexit quod per pugnum clausum voluit Stultu-s significare quöd Deus omnia manu clauderet. Et sic putavit Romanos esse valdè sapientes et dignos legibus. Et reversus fuit Alhenas, et retulit Romanos esse legibus dignos et sic fuerint concessae leges illis decem viris."

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As this event is supposed to have occurred more than four centuries before the Chris tian era, Accursius should have explained how the Grecian sage had at that time be come familiar with the doctrine of the Trin ity. The contested codicils were declared in valid in the surrogate, by the Supreme Court, and finally by the Court of Appeals. See Delafield z>. Parish, 25 N. Y. 9.

LAWYERS AND LAW PRACTICE IN ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES COMPARED. BY A LAWYER OF BOTH. II. . I HAVE said enough to show that to be come a lawyer in England is not an easy thing, and there is no disposition to make it more so. And now we may compare or contrast this with the conditions of admission to the profession in the United States, where there exists no such division of higher and lower, counsel or attorney, but where a man, admitted at all, is admitted to all. The rights and privileges which in England are divided among queen's counsel, juniorcounsel, special pleaders, proctors, attorneys and solicitors; in Scotland, between advocates and writers to the signet; in Erance, between advocates and avoués; and in every country of Europe, between men of different degrees or branches of the profession, are here enjoyed by every one who gets into the profession at all. In for one thing, he is in for all things. And in many of the States there is practically no test of qualification at all, or none worthy of the name, no evidence even of an elementary general education, no necessary preliminary service, no examination whatever. A young man of very limited education, serving be hind a counter or working in a shop during

the day, may join a law school or class meeting at nights, may attend a number of lectures (which he cannot understand for want of elementary legal knowledge), and without any further qualification or test than this may be "admitted and licensed as an attorney and counselor of law," and by means of such license may, if he choose, procure admission in most of the other States of the Union, and he is the equal, as to legal right and status, of the man of greatest culture, learning, and experience the profession has in it. It is not too much to say that a profession into which men can swarm in this way can scarcely be desig nated a " learned profession," or command the respect and confidence of the public on its own merits as a profession. And a very limited observation of the practice of our courts in most of the States is sufficient to show us the natural fruits of this state of things. It is seen in the lack of courteous deference from the bar to the bench, and of respect and confidence on the part of the bench to the bar; in the bawling and thump ing which are often made to do duty for quiet