A History of the American Bar

Originally published in 1911, PREFACE: This book is not a law book for those who wish to study law, It is an historical sketch for those who wish to know something about the men who have composed the American Bar of the past, and about the influences which produced the great American lawyers. Part One of this book is an attempt to show the legal conditions in each of the various American Colonies during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and prior to the Revolutionary War. Part Two of...