{"id":4525,"date":"2025-03-28T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toplawyersnow.com\/attorneyselect\/attorneyselect\/lawyer-articles\/england-after-the-conquest\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:45:42","slug":"england-after-the-conquest","status":"publish","type":"lawyer-articles","link":"https:\/\/toplawyersnow.com\/attorneyselect\/lawyer-articles\/england-after-the-conquest\/","title":{"rendered":"England after the Conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"

England<\/a>\u00a0after the\u00a0Norman Conquest<\/a>\u00a0of 1066 also was influenced by Roman example, and the clerics who staffed the\u00a0Norman<\/a>\u00a0and Plantagenet monarchies and who provided the earliest of their judges enabled the notion of a legal profession, and especially of\u00a0litigious<\/a>\u00a0representation, to be accepted. Only in the\u00a0ecclesiastical<\/a>\u00a0and admiralty courts, however, did procurators (<\/span>proctors<\/a>) and doctors of the civil and canon laws become established as practitioners. The native \u201c<\/span>common law<\/a>\u201d was developed by a specialized legal society, the\u00a0<\/span>Inns of Court<\/a>, in London; there, through lectures and apprenticeship, men acquired admission to practice before the royal courts. More particularly, they could become\u00a0<\/span>serjeants<\/a>\u2014the most dignified of the advocates, from whom alone after about 1300 the royal judges were appointed. Various agents for litigation resembling procurators also became known. The \u201c<\/span>attorneys<\/a>,\u201d authorized by legislation, at first shared the life of the Inns with the \u201capprentices\u201d in\u00a0advocacy<\/a>, who themselves in time acquired the title of\u00a0<\/span>barrister<\/a>. Indeed, there were cases of men working as both barristers and attorneys. When in the 16th century the\u00a0<\/span>Court of Chancery<\/a>\u00a0was established as the dispenser of \u201cequity<\/a>,\u201d the appropriate\u00a0agent<\/a>\u00a0for litigation was called a\u00a0<\/span>solicitor<\/a>, but the common-law serjeants and barristers secured the right of advocacy in that\u00a0court<\/a>. It was not until the 17th century that the attorneys and solicitors were expelled from the Inns and the division between\u00a0advocate<\/a>\u00a0and attorney became rigid, and not until the 18th century did the barristers accept a rule that they would function only upon being engaged by an attorney\u2014not upon being retained directly by a client. Other types of legal agents also developed in England, but in the 19th century all of the nonbarristers were brought under the one name, solicitor. 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