Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Based on surviving court books, the article examines the work of early pre-lawyers, known as attorneys-at-law, in the courts of Samogitia in the first decade of the seventeenth century. A preliminary list of such attorneys was compiled and is included in the article, the nature of the disputes they represented in court is discussed, some of the most active attorneys are identified, and their origins are discussed.
Source: Lituanistica
Author: Darius Vilimas
Institution: Lithuanian Institute of History
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4382930969