A History of the American Bar

Part I. Colonial Bar: Preface; The first American address to lawyers; Introductory: law without lawyers; 1. English law, law books and lawyers in the seventeenth century; 2. The colonial bar of Virginia and Maryland; 3. Colonial Massachusetts bar; 4. Colonial New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; 5. The colonial Southern bar; 6. New England colonial bar; 7. The law and lawyers in England in the eighteenth century; 8. A colonial lawyer's education; 9. Early American barristers, and bar associations; Part II. Federal Bar: 10. Prejudices against law and lawyers; 11. The federal bar and law, 1789–1815; 12. Early state bars of New York and New England; 13. Early American law books; 14. Early law professorships and schools; 15. The Federal bar and the law, 1815–30; 16. The Federal bar and law, 1830–60; 17. The progress of the law, 1830–60; 18. The rise of railroad and corporation law; 19. The era of codes, 1820–60; 20. American law books, 1815–1910; Appendix; Index.