Excerpt from The Bench and the Bar, Vol. 1 of 2 It may be right to state, that in his arrange ment of the different chapters which relate to the Bar, he has not taken the different Counsel according to their supposed priority of rank or standing in 'the profession; but has been guided in the order in which he has placed them by accidental circumstances. This appeared to him the least invidious course to adopt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.