JB/104/277/001

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1819 Aug. 14
Fallacies

Ch. Logical High fliers
2. Attornies

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Within the memory of the writer of this, the like experience
began to suggest, to a certain class of lawyers, the same like
expedient. Force Power not being in this case called into action
as in that other it has been more successful. [The breed
of Attornies has become extinct: the breed of Solicitors has
swallowed it up.] The term Like As the term appellative purveyor
in the days of the Plantagenets, the term Attorney had
become odious in the days of the Gwelfs, and from a similar cause. Solicitor as being
less in use was less so. Solicitor was moreover the name which the
sort of lawyer in question was known by when in so far as
the theatre of his practice was in a Court of called a Court of Equity.
The sad misnomer!
In a Court of Equity more money passes still still larger proportion money of other people's men
money passes through his hands, and in the like proportion
sticks to them: hence his superior importance. Be this
as it may the sort of lawyer who fifty years ago would
have been called by the name of Attorney and no other, is now
now called [calls himself and is] generally commonly called by the name of Solicitor. To him
as formerly, by the description Attorney to sh On the cover of a letter
to stile him as formerly as Attorney at law would now
be regarded either as an affront or a mark of ignorance.
How far, in so far as it was a device for the
escape from odium was the object, the device has in this
instance been successful belongs not to the present
purpose any more than to shew bring to view the injustice with
which in this instance the odium due to the authors of abuse, has fixed
itself exclusively upon the subordinate instruments.

Identifier: | JB/104/277/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1819-08-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	277	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34248
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