MRP: Serjeants-at-law

Serjeants-at-law

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Academic interest in the order of Serjeants-at-law has been mixed. In the mid and later C19th, as Queen's Counsel overwhelmed the older order of Serjeants-at-law, several contemporary holders of that title wrote histories of the order. Notable examples are those of H.W. XXXXX and Alexander Pulling. John Baker, professor of legal history at Cambridge University, has written the definitive modern history of the order, working for a wide variety of previously unpublished primary sources.

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Sources

Baker, J.H., The order of serjeants at law: A chronicle of creations, with related texts and a historical introduction (London, 1984)

• Selden Society edition

- Pulling, Alexander, The order of the coif (London, 1884)
WXXXX, H.W., XXXX