Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on research and writing, practice, and technology.

Research & Writing

Your queries answered
Neil Guthrie

Baffled on Bay Street wonders: What’s with ‘Esquire’? Does it have some special meaning in law? In mediaeval England, an esquire was one rank above a gentleman and one below a knight; hence the variant ‘squire’ for a trainee knight. …