A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts

by Thomas Leaming

Absence of "leader" in trial, [32]
Accident cases, "tender of damages" in, [122]
Admiralty, Probate, Divorce and Admiralty
Division of High Court, [93]
Trial, [104]
Advocates, solicitors as, [174]
"Agency business" of solicitors, [169]
American law books in Middle Temple library, [14]
Members of English Bar, [12]
Appeal, Courts of, [107]
to Judicial Committee of Privy Council, [113]
to House of Lords, [111]
in criminal cases, [163]
of colonial cases, [114]
Appellation of judges, [173]
Appointment of judges, [96]
Aromatic herbs in criminal courts, [133]
Assizes, [170]
"Associate" or clerk of court, [3]
Attorney or solicitor, [49]
Bags of barristers, [47]
of solicitors, [55]
Bailey, Old, [131]
"Bands" of K. C.'s dress, [40]
Bar, American members of English, [12]
Calling to, [26]
Discipline of, [67]
English, size of, [37]
English, division of, [39]
Make up of, [12]
Parliamentary, [40]
Women not eligible to, [26]
Barnard's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Barrister, "Associate," [3]
"Blue and red" bags of, [47]
Begins by becoming "devil," [30]
Chambers of, [14]
Chancery, [40]
Common law, [40]
Desks of, [3]
Dress of, [44]
Fees of, [58]
Formerly lived in Inns, [18]
Joining circuit, [171]
"Juniors," [31]
"Leader," [4]
"Locals," [172]
Master, [117]
Member of Inns of Court, [24]
Partnerships forbidden, [61]
Practice of, [57]
Selection of, [50]
Serjeants-at-law, [23]
Training of, [25]
"Twelve Dinners" of, [25]
Upon becoming K. C., invited to join Benchers, [21]
Voices of, [6]
Wig of, [5], [45]
Benchers govern Inns, [21]
Black Cap, [156]
Briefs, [50]
Briefs, endorsed with fees, [62]
Butler's livery at Old Bailey, [135]
Calling to bar, [26]
Cambridge students exempted, [25]
Censors, [68]
Chambers of barristers, [18]
Chancery Bar, "Specials," [41]
Barrister of, [40]
Division of High Court, [93]
Inns, [16]
Inns formerly connected with Inns of Court, [22]
Inns, history of, [22]
Lane, [15]
Lane, Serjeants' Inn, [23]
"Leaders," [34]
Chief Justice, salary of, [95]
Circuits of High Court, [171]
Clement's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Clerk of Court or "associate," [3]
Clifford's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Colonial appeals, [114]
Colors of bags, "blue and red" for barristers, [47]
Common juries, [92]
Serjeant criminal judge, [132]
Law barrister, [39]
"Consolidated regulations," [22]
Contingent fees not permitted, [59]
Corridors of the court, [1]
Costs, [97]
Council of Bar, general, [67]
of legal education prescribes course of studies for
barrister, [25]
Counsel in a cause, [4]
County courts, jurisdiction of, [94]
procedure, [173]
judges of, [173]
salaries of judges of, [173]
Court Appeal, [107]
Central Criminal (Old Bailey), [131]
Civil, [87]
Common Pleas, practice formerly limited to Serjeants-at-law, [23]
County, [94]-[142]
Criminal, [131]
Divisional, [113]
Enumerated, [188]
High, [88]
Police, [125]
Registrar's, [95]
Room described, [2]
Room, Criminal Court, described, [132]
Vacation of, [73]
Criminal Law, [39]
Trials, [136]
Trials, appeals in, [163]
Trials, comparison with American, [164]
Criminal Court, Aromatic herbs in, [133]
Central (Old Bailey), [131]
Customs in, [133]
Dock of, [133]
Judges of, [132]
Police, [125]
Recorder, [132]
Room described, [132]
Devil may conduct trial, [32]
"Devilling," [30]
Dhingra's Trial, [145]
Disbarment, [67]
Discipline of bar, [67]
of solicitors, [67]
Divisional Court, [113]
Divorce, Probate and Admiralty Division of High Court, [93]
Dock, in Criminal Court, [133]
Dress of Barristers, [44]
of Butlers at Old Bailey, [134]
in Criminal Court, [134]
of Footmen at Old Bailey, [135]
Judges, [3]
Judges (Chancery), [93]
King's Counsel, [44]
Solicitors, [3]-[46]
Education, Council on Legal, governs training of barristers, [25]
Employers' Liability Acts, [179]
English Bar, size of, [37]
Entrances to court room, [1]
Equity Trials in Chancery Division High Court, [93]
Ethics of profession, [68]
Etiquette of dress enforced, [40]
Fees of Barrister, [58]
of Sir Charles Russell, [60]
of Sir Frank Lockwood, [60]
Must not be contingent, [59]
Paid by law students, [26]
of solicitors, [64]
of solicitors, sometimes divided, [170]
First impressions, [1]
Fleet Street—"Old Bailey," [131]
Footman's livery—"Old Bailey," [135]
Furnival's Inn (Chancery), [23]
General Council of Bar, [67]
Observations, [177]
"Gentleman," defined by Sir Thomas Smith, [10]
Gray's Inn, [13]-[15]
Hearings in Police Courts, [125]
Herbs used in Criminal Court, [133]
High Court, of Justice, [88]
Circuits of, [139]
Division of, [88]
House of Lords, Appeals, [111]
Impressions on entering Law Courts' Building, [1]
Incorporated Law Society, [27]-[67]
Inns of Chancery, [13]
Formerly connected with Inns of Court, [22]
History of, [22]
"Staple's," "Barnard's," "Clifford's," "Clement's," "Lyon's,"
"Furnival's," "Thavie's," "New Inn," "Strand," [23]
Inns of Court, [13]
Date of origin, [21]
Government of, [21]
Origin of, [21]
Position of, [20]
Uniformity of, [21]
Inns, Gray's Inn, [13]
Inner Temple, [13]
Lincoln's Inn, [13]
Middle Temple, [13]
Serjeants', [23]
Interior of barristers' chambers, [18]
Journals, law, reports of, [72]
Judges, [3]
Actively conduct trials, [102]
Appellation of, [142]
Appointment of, [96]
Chancery Division, robes of, [93]
Formerly in holy orders, [19]
Of County Courts, [173]
Of County Courts, salaries of, [173]
Of Criminal Courts, [132]
Robes of, [3]
Salaries of, [63]-[95]
Judicial Appointments, [96]
Committee Privy Council, [113]
"Junior" barrister "opens pleadings," [31]
tries case, [32]
Jury, Common and Special, [91]
Only in King's Bench, [88]
Qualifications of, [92]
Situation and arrangement of, [3]
Trials, [100]
King's Bench, [88]
Counsel, [4], [31]
Counsel, robes of, [44]
Counsel, routine of, [36]
Counsel, "Taking Silk," [33]-[34]
Law Courts Building on Strand, [1]
Journals, [72]
Society, Solicitors' Incorporated, [28]
Lawyer's training, [9]
"Leader," [4]
King's Counsel, [31]
List of, [42]
Absence of, [32]
Leading questions, [140]-[160]
Lincoln's Inn, [13]-[15]
Livery of Footman, Criminal Court, [135]
Local Barristers, [172]
Solicitors, [169]
Lockwood, Sir Frank, fees of, [60]
London Times, law reports of, [72]
Long vacation, [73]
Lord Chancellor, appointments by, [173]
Salary of, [95]
Lord Chief Justice, [132]
Lyon's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Magna Charta fixed position of courts, [20]
Masters, [117]
Trinity, [94]
"Mess" of Circuits, [171]
Middle Temple, described, [13]
American law books in, [13]
Models much used, [104]
Murder Trial of Madar Lal Dhingra, [145]
Newgate Prison, [131]
New Inn (Chancery), [23]
Newspapers, Law reporting in, [72]
Trial of cases in, [73]
Nisi Prius, sittings frequent, [105]
Offices of barristers in Inns, [18]
Old age pensions, [181]
Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court), [131]
Oxford students, exemptions of, [25]
Parliamentary Bar, [40]
Partnerships of barristers forbidden, [61]
Pensions, old age, [181]
Police courts, [125]
Porter's Horn, [17]
Practice of barristers, [58]
before masters, [117]
Rules of, [89]
Preliminary hearing in Police Courts, [125]
Preparation of case by solicitor, [4]
"President" of Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, [88]
Prison fever, [131]
Privy Council, judicial committee of, [113]
Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of High Court, [93]
Procedure in county courts, [173]
Provincial courts, [169]
Reading of English law student, [25]
Recorder, a criminal judge, [132]
Registrars' courts, [174]
Registrar, a solicitor, [175]
Reports of cases, [72]
Robes, Judges', [3]
of Judges' Chancery Division, [93]
of King's Counsel, [44]
Rules of practice, [89]
Russell, Sir Charles, fees of, [60]
Salaries of judges, [63]-[95]
of Judges, County Courts, [173]
of Masters, [117]
Serjeants-at-law, [23]
Common, a criminal judge, [132]
Inn, [13]-[23]
Inn, present use of, [23]
Shakespeare, production of "Twelfth Night" in Temple, [14]
Sheriffs, duties in Criminal Court, [132]
"Silk," "taking of," [33]
Smith, Sir Thomas, definition of "gentleman," [10]
Socialistic legislation, [184]
Solicitors, [49]
"Agents," [169]
Bags of, [55]
Become registrars, [175]
Develop into advocates, [174]
Discipline of, [67]
Dress of, [55]
Fees of, [64]
Have no Inn of Court, [27]
Incorporated Law Society governs training of solicitors, [27]
Prepare cases, [4]
Sphere of, [50]
Training of, [12]-[27]
"Well," [3]
Special Juries, [92]
"Specials" in the Chancery Courts, [40]
List of, [42]
Staple's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Strand Inn (Chancery), [23]
Students, training of, [25]
Supreme Court of Judicature, [87]
"Taking Silk," [33]
Templars, Knights; use of land of, by Inns of Court, [13]
Temple, Church of, [14]
Inner, [13]
Library of, [14]
Middle, [13]
Tender of damages in tort cases, [122]
Thavie's Inn (Chancery), [23]
Trade Guilds organized, [19]
Treasurer, executive officer of Inn of Court, [21]
Term of, [21]
Trial, [31]-[74]
Absence of "Leader" in, [32]
In Admiralty, [104]
Before Master, [118]
Of criminal cases, [136]
"Trinity Masters," [94]
"Twelfth Night," produced in Temple, [14]
Vacations of courts, [74]
"Weepers," [44]
"White Book," [68]
Wigs, [45]
Barristers' described, [5]
Witness Box, situation of, [3]
Witnesses, demeanor of, [6]
Women, not eligible to Bar, [26]
Workingmen's Compensation Acts, [179]

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Transcriber's Notes:

The spelling "Sergeant" appears once in this text on page [134], otherwise the word is spelled and indexed as "Serjeant."

There is a separate [Transcriber's Note] at the end of the [List of Counsel] that appears in Chapter IV.

Missing page numbers are blank or unnumbered in the original text.