Historical Discourse, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Historical Discourse, Vol. 16

Sir William Blackstone, as many of my hearers will remem ber, cites from old Fortescue this question, Why the laws of England were not taught in the universities, as the civil and canon laws were? Whatever may have been the reason, whether it was that the Latin of the lecture-rooms there was not suited for the proper treatment of the law of England, or that law students would go where cases on appeal were tried and a body of lawyers dwelt, in order to learn forms and prin ciples at the place of chief resort, - I say, whatever may have been the reason, the fact seems to be admitted that there was no formal instruction given at either university in common law, until Mr. Viner founded at Oxford the professorship of that science, of which, in 1758, Blackstone was appointed the first incumbent.

In our country, for a long time after it became independent, the three learned professions were all alike in trusting for their new supplies to private instruction. Now and then a minister of eminence, like Dr. Bellamy of Bethlem, in this State, gath ered about him quite a number of young men who had devoted themselves to the ministerial profession. The pupils heard lectures, read sermons or subjects of sermons or theological essays, and their influence on one another must have been very stimulating. Probably the same thing was true of eminent physicians. It certainly was of eminent lawyers.

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