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Barrister, or Barrastor

Barrister, or Barrastor, a counsellor or advocate learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there

Advocates, Faculty of

Advocates, Faculty of, the bar of Scotland. The Faculty was instituted along with the College of Justice in 1532. Members are entitled to

Tail

after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way of trust and which (if not barred or disposed of by will after 1925) will devolve inequity on the person who would have taken realty

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Person aggrieved

SCC 484: (1971) 1 SCR 863. [Advocates Act, 1961, s. 37] (ii) The word 'person' will embrace the Bar Council which represent the Bar of the State. The Bar Council is 'a person aggrieved' because it represents

Advocate

or action. The term is at the present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.). In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons learned in the civil

Solid drawn

Drawn out from a heated solid bar as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by

bench

bench 1 : the place where a judge sits in court [asked counsel to approach the ] compare bar, dock, jury box, sidebar, stand 2 : the court or system of courts serving an area [the state

debar

debar de·barred de·bar·ring : to bar from having or doing something ;specif : to exclude from contracting with the federal government or a federal

estoppel

[probably from Middle French estoupail plug, stopper, from estouper to stop up see estop ] 1 : a bar to the use of contradictory words or acts in asserting a claim or right against another ;esp :

Judge

Jud. Act, 1925, s. 9, replacing s. 8 of the Judicature Act, 1873, ten years' standing at the Bar for a judge of the High Court of Justice, and fifteen years' standing at the Bar or one

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