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26 upon his being brought before the court in o defenceles a condition, the judges are bound to take care of his interets, and they hall admit the bet plea in his behalf that any one preent can ugget. But, as in the Roman law "cum olim in uu uiet, alterius nomine agi non poe, ed, quia hoc non minimam incommoditatem habebat, coeperunt homines per procuratores litigare ," o with us, upon the ame principle of convenience, it is now permitted in general, by divers antient tatutes, whereof the firt is tatute Wet. 2. c. 10. that attorneys may be made to proecute or defend any action in the abence of the parties to the uit. Thee attorneys are now formed into a regular corps; they are admitted to the execution of their office by the uperior courts of Wetminter-hall; and are in all points officers of the repective courts in which they are admitted: and, as they have many privileges on account of their attendance there, o they are peculiarly ubject to the cenure and animadverion of the judges. No man can practie as an attorney in any of thoe courts, but uch as is admitted and worn an attorney of that particular court: an attorney of the court of king's bench cannot practice in the court of common pleas; nor vice vera. To practice in the court of chancery it is alo neceary to be admitted a olicitor therein: and by the tatute 22 Geo. II. c. 46. no peron hall act as an attorney at the court of quarter eions, but uch as has been regularly admitted in ome uperior court of record. So early as the tatute 4 Hen. IV. c. 18. it was enacted, that attorneys hould be examined by the judges, and none admitted but uch as were virtuous, learned, and worn to do their duty. And many ubequent tatutes have laid them under farther regulations.

advocates, or (as we generally call them) counel, there are two pecies or degrees; barriters, and erjeants. The former are admitted after a coniderable period of tudy, or at leat tanding, in the inns of court ; and are in our old books tiled n Bro. ''Abr. t. ideot. I. o Int.'' 4. tit. 10. p 3 Jac. I. c. 7. 12 Geo. I. c. 29. 2 Geo. II. c. 23. 22 Geo. II. c. 46. 23 Geo. II. c. 26. q See vol. I. introd, §. 1. Rh