Called, then what?

 Called, then what?

‘Called’ is called to bar. 'Called, then what' is 24^th Chapter of An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (hereinafter referred as ‘Gandhiji’).

I was reading this chapter and learned that Gandhiji has read all his textbooks before the Bar examinations! List of textbooks he read at his time are listed as below;-

1. Thomas Collett Saunders, The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation and Notes (1859).
2. Herbert Broom, Commentaries on Common Law, Designed as Introductory to its Study, eighth edition (1888).
3. Edmund H.T. Snell, The Principles of Equity, Intended for the Use of Students and the Profession, eighth edition (1887).
4. Frederick T. White and Owen D. Tudor, Leading Cases in Equity, sixth edition (1886).
5. Joshua Williams, Principles of the Law of Real Property, Intended as a first book for the use of students in conveyancing, sixteenth edition (1887).
6. William Douglas Edwards, A Compendium of the Law of Property in Land (1888).
7. Two volumes by Louis A. Goodeve, The Modern Law of Real Property, with an Introduction for the Student, second edition (1885), and The Modern Law of Personal Property (1887).
8. John D. Mayne, A Treatise on Hindu Law and Usage (1876).

After 132 years, I passed my examinations in a semi-rural local law school in Terengganu, studying Malaysian law. I have at least heard of Snell on Equity before. This is because other common law divisions were taught in more of lex loci instead of blindly depending on the UK’s common law except for equity. Equity was more of a theoretical subject, which made me sleep in class. I was thrilled when Gandhiji  referred to equity as ‘was full of interest, but a bit hard to understand.’