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Last day of term

Last day of term. On the last day of each of the four terms the junior barrister present in every Court of law was entitled to make his motion the first, and so on, in

Recorder

Recorder, in municipal boroughs having a separate Court of Quarter Sessions, a barrister of five years' standing at least, appointed by the Crown, holding office during good behaviour, and receiving 'such

Revising Barristers' Courts

Revising Barristers' Courts were courts presided over by a revising barrister which were held throughout the country each autumn to

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Disbarring

Disbarring, expelling a barrister from the bar, a power vested in the benchers of each of the four Inns of Court, subject

Bar

sit or stand. Solicitors, being officers of the court, are admitted within it, as are also King's counsel, barristers with patents of precedence, and serjeants, in virtue of their ranks. Parties who appear in person also are

Client (Lay)

Client (Lay), refers to the person on whose behalf the barrister is retained or in relation to an employed barrister, his employer, Code of Conduct for the Bar of

Counsel, or counsellor

or counsellor, a person retained by a client to plead his cause in a court of judicature; a barrister; an advocte. See BARRISTER

Pre-audience

be heard before another; as of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General before King's Counsel, of King's Counsel before other barristers, and of barristers generally in the order of their call.

Ancients

Ancients, gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery. In Gray's Inn the Society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple,

Rolls of the temple

Rolls of the temple. In the two Temples was a roll called the Calves-head Roll, wherein every bencher, barrister, and student, was taxed yearly at so much to the cook and other offices of the houses, in

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