CONTENTS. Interest of the Subject.-Jealousy felt towards the Office.-Tes- timony borne by Antiquity. — Quotations from Cicero, Tacitus, Quintilian and others. - Eulogy by Writers in France. Ter- rasson.- Responsibility of the Office of an Advocate.- Lawyers of past times. Early Struggles. - Arduous Requirements of the Law. What is Advocacy ? Trial Scene from Homer's Description of the Shield of Achilles. - Account of the Legal Tribunals of Ancient Egypt. More's Utopia. - Utility of the - Oratory in Greece confined to Athens. Employment of Ad- - - - Reign of James I. — Cruel Proceedings against Spreul in Scot- land. - Clepsydras or Water Clocks. - Abusive Language in the Attic Orators. - Value of their Forensic Speeches. Cu- rious Case of crim. con. at Athens. A Faithless Wife. cimen of a Will Cause. Counsel acting for both Plaintiff and Account given by Pomponius in the Digest.- The Lost Institutes of Gaius discovered by Niebuhr. - Mistakes of the Roman Jurists as to the early Constitution of Rome. The Papirian Code, Twelve Tables, and Jus Flavianum. —Analogy to our own Law.—Distinction between Populus and Plebs.— Secession of the Plebs to the Sacred Hill. The Jus Honorarium. Province of Equity in this Country.- Explanation of the diffe- rent kinds of Prætorian Edicts. - Constituent Elements of the Roman Law. The Forum described. - Basilica or Halls. A modern Trachallus. -Trials held in the open air. State of the Forum when Cicero defended Milo. - Account of the Death of Clodius. Result of the Trial. Vicissitudes of the Forum. - Jurisdiction of the Prætors.· The Emperor acting as a Judge at Chambers. -Court of the Centumviri. - Crimi- - Meaning of term Orator.— Difference between Rome and Eng- CONTENTS. ditor. - Virginius and his Daughter. - xiii Scene from Shakspear. Dramatic Scenes in Court. Cicero defending Fonteius.- - Page 94 CHAPTER V. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE ADVOCATES OF ROME DURING THE -- - - REPUBLIC. -- Early Orators of Rome. The Forest Murders, and Sulpicius - - Barrow. - - lofty Idea of his Profession. - Narrative of his Studies and - - - - A Forensic Oratory perished with the Republic. - Causes of this. Tacitus on the Decline of Eloquence. - Complaints of Degene- racy made by Writers from earliest times.- Description by Juvenal of Condition of Advocates in his time. - Lord Ellen- borough under drill. - Claqueurs introduced into Courts at Rome. - Curious Letter of Pliny recommending a Junior. — Names of famous Advocates in Imperial Rome. Quintilian mourning for his Wife and Children. — Rights and Privileges of Advocates according to the Justinian Code.- Female Advocates prohibited. Counsel assigned by Prætor. Scurrility forbid- den. Ordinance of Charles VIII. of France on that Subject. - Advocates and Holy Orders. Advocates in the Middle Ages. La Haute Cour and La Cour des Bourgeois. - Lettres du Sépulcre and Assises de Jerusalem.-A Coroner's Inquest in CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. THE NOBLESSE DE LA ROBE, XV - - - - - Proud Position of the Bar in France. - A French Advocate - - - - - - - |