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       Because the law was highly technical, proficiency could be acquired only
by following the demanding studies of the Inns. In practice, the Inns thus had a
monopoly over legal education. In the 15th and 16th centuries, however, many
students joined the Inns for the purpose of getting a general education, rather
than legal training. By the end of the 16th century the Inns of Court had begun
to exclude attorneys and solicitors and refused to call them to the bar, with the
result that attorneys especially fell back on the Inns of Chancery and finally
came to form a profession distinct from that of the barristers.
       By the beginning of the 17th century, all the Inns had acquired the actual
ownership of their sites and begun building splendid halls, a process that contin-
ued through the century.
       Various causes brought on the decline of this system of education. For one
thing, the great activity of the printing press led students to rely more on printed
material, and as a result they neglected attendance at readings and moots. The
system broke down completely during the English Civil Wars; readings ceased
in 1677, and only the fees survived. Having paid them, the student was deemed
to have fulfilled his duties. With no readers to recommend students for call to
the bar, the four Inns in the 18th century finally agreed to call students who had
been in residence a stated number of terms. Later, it was settled that eating three
dinners was equivalent to attending for the whole term. Meanwhile, the Inns of
Chancery were no longer adequate for so large a group as the attorneys and so-
licitors, and these latter therefore created their own society.
       In the 19th century the common law commissioners investigated the Inns
of Court, which as a result took steps to resume their educational functions.
Readerships were reestablished, and lawyers were engaged in teaching with a
view to examinations conducted by the Bar Council of Legal Education, repre-
senting all four Inns.
       In 1974 the Inns created an administrative body, the Senate of the Inns of
Court and the Bar, which oversees such matters as finance, legal reform, and
educational standards.

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      WANTED

      Crime: Armed Robbery
      Location: South & South Park Streets
      Date: November 13, 1999

      The public's assistance is requested in identifying the person or persons
responsible for an armed robbery on the southwest corner of the South St. and
South Park St. intersection.
      This crime occurred at 9:30 a.m. on November 13, 1999.
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