Hints on Advocacy

FxVCE TO THE FLRST ENGLISH EDITION. There is no School of A dvocacy; thero are no Lectukks on A dvocacy; and so far as I have been able to ascertain, there is no BOOK on the subject. The young lawyer has to find his way as best he can, very often to the sacrifice of important interests and many unfortunate clients. As he has never learned anythini of the Art of A dvocacj, he is no more fitted for the task of advocating their rights than the clients themselves, except in so far as his knowledge of law will assist him in the purely legal aspects of the question. It seems to me lamentable that no instruction stiould ever be given in an art which requires an almost infinite amount of knowledge. Tact can not be taught, but it will follow from experience, and a good deal of experience nfay be condensed into the form of rules. never felt so much in trant oj a lender as I did ii hen I had to croas-examinc that doctor, said a talented junior of considerable standing, the other day. Why should this have been? Wliat he had to cross-examine about was simple enough, although the question involved was the sanity or insanity of an individual at a particular time. But he had no rule to guide him, and was simply adrift. It is with the hope that some of the observations I have made in the course of my experience may be of some little service to beginners in the profession, and whose want of knowledge of this great practical branch of it is no fault of theirs, that I have vntured to offer them the following Hints. Temple. Sept. 17, 1879.
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