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Home Dictionary Name: clement s innClement'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....
Clifford's Inn
Clifford's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. Anciently the town residence of the Barons Clifford, and demised in 1345 to a body of students of law. It was the most important of the Inns of Chancery and numbered among its students Coke and Selden. It was governed by a principal and twelve rulers until late in the last century. In 1902 the Society was dissolved and the property sold. See INNS OF CHANCERY....
Barnard's Inn
Barnard's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY....
Furnival's inn
Furnival's inn, formerly an Inn of Chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY....
Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court. see INNS OF COURT....
Lyon's Inn
Lyon's Inn, an Inn of Chancery. See INNS OF CHANCERY...
Gray's Inn
Gray's Inn. See INNS OF COURT....
Symond's Inn
Symond's Inn, formerly an Inn of Chancery....
Scroop's Inn
Scroop's Inn, an obsolete law society, also called Serjeant's Place, opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London...
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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