A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450.
Cohen, Herman. A History of the English Bar and Attornatus to 1450. Originally published: London: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited, 1929. x, 622 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-10: 1584774827; ISBN-13: 9781584774822. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * A thorough study of the literature dealing with the English legal profession from the Anglo-Saxon era to Fortescue's De Laudibus. Turning to the continent, Cohen supplements the English literature with references to the organization of the legal profession in France, Normandy, Germany and Spain. Holdsworth recommended this book when it was first published, noting that he "collected and arranged valuable materials which will be useful to all historians of English law": Law Quarterly Review 45:398 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 220.
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