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48 Syracuse L. Rev. 1 (1998)
The Legal Profession in Medieval England: A History of Regulation

handle is hein.journals/syrlr48 and id is 25 raw text is: THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: A HISTORY OF REGULATION Jonathan Roset CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 3 I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND .................................................................. 5 A. The Developing Notion of a Legal Representative ................................. 6 1. The Emergence of the Legal Profession: A Brief Sketch ..................... 8 2. Changes in the Legal System: The Underlying Cause ..................... 16 3. Different Types of Lawyers ............................................................... 19 a. Sereants ........................................................................................ 19 b. Apprentices ................................................................................... 22 c. Attorneys ........................................................................................ 24 d Essoiners ....................................................................................... 27 4. Two Postscripts: The Influence of Other Legal Systems and Legal Education .......................................................................................... 28 a. The Influence of Other Legal Systems .......................................... 28 b. Legal Education ............................................................................ 31 B. The Climate of Opinion at the Inception of Regulation ........................ 34 II. MEDIEVAL REGULATION OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION ............................... 41 A. Medieval Regulation and Statutes: A Perspective ............................... 41 B. The Initial Regulation .......................................................................... 49 1. Statute of Westminster I, Chapter 29 (1275) ................................... 50 a. The Statute .................................................................................... 50 t Professor of Law, College of Law, Arizona State University. B.A. 1960, University of Pennsylvania; LL.B 1963, University of Minnesota. The author wishes to express appre- ciation to Michael Berch, Norman Cantor, Daniel Farber, John Frank, Geoffrey Hazard, Owen Jones, Ron Kilgard, Geoffrey Miller, Thomas Morgan, Cary Nederman, James Old- ham, Milton Schroeder, Joe Sims, Janet Smith, Cynthia Ward, Lawrence Winer, and Char- les Wolfram. I also wish to thank translators Robert Bjork (Middle English), Claudia Boyle (Latin) and Suzanne Prosnier (Medieval French); law librarians Laura Bedard (Georgetown) and Marianne Alcom (Arizona State); and my research assistant Warren Stapleton. Most importantly, I owe a special debt of gratitude to Dr. Paul Brand, whose extensive com- ments, assistance, and scholarship have been invaluable. As usual, the author bears full re- sponsibility for this Article's analysis and conclusions.

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