The Bench And Bar Of Georgia During The Eighteenth Century PDF Download

Excerpt from The Bench and Bar of Georgia During the Eighteenth Century The result of my search is less than a handful of grain. It may not be beaten into any logical narrative. But a fact here, a fact there, and another yonder may be artificially strung together, and I hope that you will not find that the patchwork is altogether void, as containing matter different from that expressed in its title: "The Bench and Bar of Georgia During the Eighteenth Century." Who was the first man who ever practiced law in Georgia? We know the names of the first judges (2 C. R. 11); even the names of the first jury (1 Stevens' Hist, of Ga. 101), but who can give us the name of the first Georgia lawyer, or indeed of any lawyer that practiced in the Colony prior to the Revolution? The natural place to find the answer to this question would be in the court records. They have been lost, and, consequently, it has been impossible to fully write of the Bench and Bar of Georgia in the 18th Century. But in 1904 the State began the publication of the Colonial Records and made available to the student of Georgia History the Journal kept by William Stephens, in Savannah; the Journal kept by the Earl of Egmond in London and the hitherto unpublished Minutes of the Trustees in London; the Minutes of the Commons House of Assembly, and of the Governor and Council, kept in Savannah from 1754 to 1774, and the Minutes of the House and Council at Savannah and Augusta during the Revolutionary period. The entries in those volumes are for the most part merely formal and must be pieced together and then fused into one in order to furnish the basis of a narrative. But from them all we get an impressionistic picture, if not a photographic reproduction, of life in the little Colony on the Savannah, which would be petty and local but for the fact that they tell of the Beginnings of the Judicial System of a great State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.