Editing Solicitor (section)

===Historical usage===
Historically, solicitors existed in the United States and, consistent with the pre-1850s usage in England and elsewhere, the term referred to a lawyer who argued cases in a [[court of equity]], as opposed to an attorney who appeared only in courts of law.<ref>[http://arcourts.ualr.edu/glossary.htm "Glossary of Terms"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706115059/http://arcourts.ualr.edu/glossary.htm |date=6 July 2008 }}, ''Arkansas Territorial Briefs and Records'', William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, s.v. "Chancery". Retrieved 12 June 2009.<br />- Frederic Jesup Stimpson, ''Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law'', s.v. "Solicitors", (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1881), 273.</ref> With the chancery or equity courts disappearing or being subsumed under courts of law, by the late 19th century members of the fused profession were called "attorneys", with "solicitors" becoming obsolete.