Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

History Of Our Robed Brothers Called Attorneys

So long as there are requirements and struggles for resources, there will be disputes between individuals. Therefore, there will be a need for counsel. If these people are not there, those affected remain beak in the water and they will continue to fight among themselves. This may cause further animosity. A society where there is much hate will be chaotic. To avoid such a situation, there is need of a legal system in which lawyers, which are also called "gentlemen of the long robe" play a major role. They help bringing discipline and order in society and also in the control of crimes, which may be committed because of animosity, hatred, jealousy and disputes.


Essentially, these people who are also known as lawyers, lawyers and consultants in law, are allowed to practice law and legal work of civil and criminal cases of people who believe in them, in a specific jurisdiction. In addition, they perform many other functions within the legal jurisdiction as of giving legal advice, drafting documents legal, etc. They also represent their clients in legal forums such as the courts, the courts and other administrative bodies.


Nevertheless, not all can practice as a lawyer. To do this, you should obtain qualified and obtain a Juris Doctor degree from an institution of law. This institution should have been certified. However, the Juris Doctor degree can be obtained if you already have a Bachelor's degree. You should practice for a fixed term, and then only, you can practice in the bars of other jurisdictions. However, it is also subject to the rules and regulations of other jurisdictions.


A peep in the history of the lawyers will show that the date of the first Attorney is still not found. However, the experts consider that the lawyers were there still of one to 1.5 million years. There are a few experts who believe also that a special gene called L1a should be present in the body of a person of legal skills.


History shows that even for 10,000 years, prosecutors had to fight for customers. During these days, small groups of lawyers were wandering from one place to another for customers. It is in the Valley of the heart they settled finally and the invention of writing coincides also with this period.


Anthropologists traced the first language of contract legal for the years 1880, when a Sphinx known as Pierre property rights were transferred in return. This legal document has been called the contract of the Rosetta Stone. It is said that Pharaoh then got angry on this sale and he ordered purge the Earth of all lawyers. This has led to the assassination of a number of lawyers and many other lawyers have fled the country. They could not settle in a place to practice law. They have literally wanderers in the desert until the revival of Greek and Roman civilization.


The history of lawyers is clearly available for this period from. It is the Attorney of the famous, Hammurabi, giving the code this way paved for lawyers and law get opportunities to manage the Affairs of others. This period from the demand for the services of lawyers began growing. If you look at the Greek history, Pythagoras was a Prosecutor. Lawyers were in charge in the policy. Roman history shows that the request of prosecutors has increased in other areas also. Thus, there were Solicitors for sport, the Admiralty lawyers and international lawyers.


When people more began the practice of law, there was deterioration in quality. This has led to many flaws in the legal systems. The so-called "Dark Ages" of this profession in and that has prevailed for many years. During this period, the legal profession and legal theory was missed by all. This is the year 1078 in England, the dark ages ended.


History shows that there were many personalities who have been the practice of law. Blackstone was regarded as the father of legal Latin. Leonardo da Vinci, a person of many talents, was also the practice of law. When nations started to conquer other lands and colonial rule began, Spain was relegated to the background and England came to the forefront as the colonizer leader. England had to send several attorneys to its colonies, including America. American history shows that it was the grandchildren of lawyers sent by England in America who defeated King George III in the famous case of King George III c. 100 bags of tea 14 f. Supp. 34 (Colonial Supreme Court 1783).


Since England had sent a number of lawyers in its colonies, there was a lack of lawyers in England. American history also shows that the new counsel of America out smarted and defeated the British in a legal war and the length of this extended legal war of 7 years. A nation called the United States was born when the legal war was won by the Americans. England learned its bitter lesson and decided to stop sending its lawyers to its colonies.


Since more people more has started to practice law, rules were transmitted only those who have studied in approved law schools may become prosecutors. The presence of the Harvard Law School was the first and the original model of the school began to give such rules to become lawyers.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Notary History Part 1

Notary History Part 1

In the world today, there are three major, distinctly different notarial systems, each associated with a different type of Notary: the Civil Law Notary system of the Latin nations, the Common Law Notary system of the English-speaking nations, and the Notary system of the United States of America, which is derived from the English Common Law system but quite different. The following selective historical accounts provide illuminating background information on the evolution of the three modern systems of notarization.

Ancient Egypt: Old Kingdom: 2750-2250 B.C. Ancient Egyptian "sesh," or "scribes," were established in the Old Kingdom and were the earliest known chroniclers of official communications in recorded history. The tools of their craft were pigments, water pots and writing implements, which they often carried over their shoulders. Scribes made up an entire level of ancient bureaucracy and were the only citizens who were aware of almost every noteworthy event in the empire. Personal letters, diplomatic communications, wills and other legal documents, official proclamations, tax records, administrative, economic, and religious documents, and other documents all went through their hands. The closing phrase of their ancient letters, "May you be well when you hear this," implies that the scribes not only wrote but also read communications between two people. The recording of events was so highly valued that Pharaoh Tutankhamen even included writing equipment among the necessities he had with him for the afterlife. Today, there are preserved copies of the efforts of some scribal apprentices whose works have been corrected in red by their masters.

Roman Empire, Corpus Juris Civilis of Emperor Justinian: A.D. 535 The true ancestors of Notaries were born in the Roman Empire. Many regard history's first Notary to be a Roman slave named Tiro, who developed a shorthand system which he called notae for taking down the speeches of famed orator Cicero. Other witnessing stenographers came to be known as notarii and scribae. Their historical development was shaped by Roman Private Law which, in AD 535, culminated in the Corpus Juris Civilis of Emperor Justinian. Part of his new law was novella 44, the first Notaries Act. Six hundred years later, the glossarists of the law school of Bologna rediscovered the "novels" of Justinian, and adapted them for the use of a new class of medieval legal officers: the international Notaries. As literacy was not widespread, the Notary, or "Notarius" as they were called, served to prepare contracts, wills, and other important documents for a fee. As the Roman Empire grew and literacy increased, demand for the Notary also increased. Soon, Notaries were being used in the empire provinces of what are now England, France, and Spain.

Order of the Knights Templar: 1099-1307 The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Knights Templar, were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land. From humble beginnings of poverty when the order relied on alms from the traveling pilgrims, the Order would go on to have the backing of the Holy See and the collective European monarchies. Within two centuries they had become powerful enough to defy all but the Papal throne, and created the modern system of banking, mortgages and loans. The Clergy of the Order were highly educated and became the critically important Notaries for all Templar business, official documents, orders and proclamations. The Templars had grown rich and powerful, and amid unsubstantiated rumors of heretical practices, King Philip the Fair of France saw an opportunity to fill his own coffers at their expense. He had all the Templars in France arrested and pressured Pope Clement V to suppress the order. Clement V ordered one of the Order's Notaries to record the coerced confessions of scores of Order members. On Friday, October 13th, 1307, King Philip had all the Templars arrested on the grounds of heresy, since this was the only charge that would allow the seizing of their money and assets. With the forced notarized confessions used as key evidence, many Templars were tortured, banished or burned at the stake. Ever since then, the superstitious have considered Friday the 13th a day of bad luck.

Notary Publics in England: 13th and 14th Centuries Notaries were not introduced into England until later in the 13th and 14th centuries as English common law developed free from most of the influences of Roman law. Notaries were often appointed by the Papal Legate or the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in those early days many were members of the clergy. Over the course of time members of the clergy ceased to involve themselves in secular business, thus the laymen in towns and trading centers began to assume the official character and functions of a modern Notary. Then in 1533 the enactment of the Ecclesiastical Licenses Act -- also known as the "Peters Pence and Dispensations Act" -- terminated the power of the Pope to appoint Notaries and vested that power in the King. Traditionally, Notaries recorded matters of judicial importance as well as private transactions or events where an officially authenticated record or a document drawn up with professional skill or knowledge was required. In the Middle Ages, Notaries were sometimes asked to witness the consummation of marriages involving royalty. The other emphasis on notarial acts was the importance of the Deed. In Roman law countries only Court judgments carried any special force, but, as Notaries ceased to be dependent on judicial authorities more and more force was given to their Authentic Acts, as they are called. It was Louis XIV of France who abolished the last vestiges of the ancient dependence on judicial authority and granted to each Notary a seal with the Royal Arms. The modern Notary must still employ his seal, but that is now for him to design personally and to guard carefully.

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Michael Brightener is an article and blog writer from Austin, Texas. For information on becoming a notary, visit the National Notary Association, an educational resource for Notary Courses.


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