Note 243 — XVII INAUGURAL LECTURE[234] THE ACADEMICAL STUDY OF THE CIVIL LAW
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Although it is the custom of placing a youth (untrained in theory) in an attorney’s office to learn practice which Blackstone is here condemning, the spirit of his concluding remarks is almost equally applicable to the present usage of entering a conveyancer’s or pleader’s chambers before one has gained any systematic knowledge (or indeed any knowledge whatever) of the law.