Lawyers
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The legal profession, credited with developing the common-law and equitable doctrines discussed, and later perplexed by the statutory reforms.
It is often said, even by eminent lawyers, that a married woman was in respect of her separate property made in equity a feme sole.
—A married woman’s position in regard to her property was the natural result, worked out by successive generations of lawyers with logical thoroughness, of the principle that, in the words of Blackstone, “by marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law:
Want of support by popular opinion probably made it necessary to proceed step by step, but it is difficult to believe that enlightened reformers who had understood the actual state of the law could not in 1870 have gone much further than they did towards establishing the principles now embodied in the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1882-1893.
Ancient Law
The professional group of lawyers whose historical awareness Maine is credited with reshaping.
But Maine has taught us that the way to impart a historical habit of mind to lawyers is Edition:
De Rerum Natura
Legal advocates cited as an example of professionals who dream of their trade.
The lawyers seem to plead and cite decrees,
Law in a Free State
The legal profession, described as having a legitimate professional interest in studying divorce-court cases.
Those who are curious in such matters, those who have a personal interest in the parties concerned, as well as those who have to study the question as a rather repulsive case of social pathology—viz.