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Home Dictionary Name: clementClement's Inn
Clement's Inn, an Inn of Chancery before the reign of Edward IV., taking its name from the parish church of St. Clement Danes, to which the Inn formerly belonged. Now only the name remains to denote the locality. See INNS OF CHANCERY....
Clementine
Of or pertaining to Clement esp to St Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him or to Pope Clement V and his compilations of canon law...
Clement
Mild in temper and disposition merciful compassionate...
Mild
Gentle pleasant kind soft bland clement hence moderate in degree or quality the opposite of harsh severe irritating violent disagreeable etc applied to persons and things as a mild disposition a mild eye a mild air a mild medicine a mild insanity...
Night Before Christmas
The popular name for a poem by Clement Clarke Moore titled A Visit from St Nicholas a popular poem with the theme of St Nicholas Santa Claus coming to bring gifts to children on Christmans eve...
Remissful
Inclined to remit punishment lenient clement...
Clementines
Clementines, the collection of decretals or constitutions of Pope Clement V., made by order of John XXII., his successor, who published it in 1317....
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Extravagantes
Extravagantes, those decretal epistles which were published after the Clementines. They were so called because first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detached from the canon law. They continued to be called by the same name when they were afterwards inserted in the body of the canon law. The first extravagantes are those of Pope John XXII., successor of Clement V. The last collection was brought down to the year 1843, and was called the common extravagantes, notwithstand-ing that they were likewise incorporated with the rest of the canon law.Papal constitution and decretal epistles of Pope John XXII and his succession, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 607....
Inns of Chancery
Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the Court of Chancery. There were nine of them-Clement's, Clifford's, Lyon's, Furnival's, Thavies', Symond's, New Inn, and Barnard's and Staple Inn. These were formerly pre-paratory colleges for students, and many entered them before they were admitted into the Inns of Court. See 3 Rep., Pref., p. 18; Report of Royal Commission, 1855.The Inns of Court from time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, the education and examination of students, the calling of stu-dents to the Bar, and the taking out of certificates to practice under the Bar. These Regulations, a copy of which can be obtained on application to any one of the Inns, contain full information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See BENCHERS; ...
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