A BOOK ABOUT LAWYERS.
by
JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON,
Barrister-at-Law Author of "A Book About Doctors," Etc., Etc.
Reprinted from the London Edition.
Two Volumes in One.
New York: Carleton, Publisher, Madison Square. London: S. Low, Son & Co., M DCCC LXXV.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1807, by G.W. Carleton & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
John F. Trow & Son, Printers, 205-213 East 12th St., New York.
CONTENTS.
PART I. HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDERS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. LADIES IN LAW COLLEGES 7
II. THE LAST OF THE LADIES 13
III. YORK HOUSE AND POWIS HOUSE 22
IV. LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS 27
V. THE OLD LAW QUARTER 36
PART II. LOVES OF THE LAWYERS.
VI. A LOTTERY 49
VII. GOOD QUEEN BESS 55
VIII. REJECTED ADDRESSES 62
IX. "CICERO" UPON HIS TRIAL 71
X. BROTHERS IN TROUBLE 75
XI. EARLY MARRIAGES 86
PART III. MONEY.
XII. FEES TO COUNSEL 97
XIII. RETAINERS, GENERAL AND SPECIAL 113
XIV. JUDICIAL CORRUPTION 122
XV. GIFTS AND SALES 136
XVI. A ROD PICKLED BY WILLIAM COLE 143
XVII. CHIEF JUSTICE POPHAM 149
XVIII. JUDICIAL SALARIES 153