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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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