MISCELLANEOUS OCCUPATIONS

LAW.

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CENTURY increasing number of persons has been following this profession. The profession includes practising lawyers, their clerks, petition writers etc. The Census of 1911 recorded the number of lawyers of all kinds including kazis, law agents and mukhtiars as 207 and the number of clerks and petition writers as 47. In 1931, the number of lawyers of all kinds was 269 and the number of clerks and petition writers 313. During these twenty years the number of practising lawyers, increased by 62 and the number of clerks and petition writers by 286. The figures for the year 1951 showed a slight decline in the number of practising lawyers, which stood at 249 and a great decrease in the number of clerks and petition writers, which stood at 120.

In the beginning of January, 1956 there were 15 courts in the districts. Of these one was District and Sessions Court, five courts of Judicial Magistrates, three courts of Civil Judges and six courts of Civil Judge-cum-Magistrates. Of the 342 lawyers including two women lawyers, one was a barrister.

The number of lawyers practising at different places was as follows:-

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