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Serjeants' inn. A society consisting of the entire body of serjeants-at-law, which included all the Common Law judges appointed before the commencement of the Judicature Acts. Their property in Chancery lane was sold by auction in 1877, and the proceeds, 57,000l., divided amongst the then members of the Society. See title SERJEANT.