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Coif [fr. coiffe, Fr.], the badge of serjeants-at-law, who were called serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wore on their heads under their caps when created serjeants, Cowel. See SERJEANT, and consult Pulling's State and Degree of the Coif....
Coifed
Wearing a coif...
Serjeant
Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:-A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter, the highest degree in the Common Law, as doctors in the Civil Law; but, according to Spelman, a doctor of law is superior to a serjeant, for the very name of a doctor is magisterial, but that of a serjeant is only ministerial. Serjeants-at-law were made by the sovereign's writ, addressed unto such as are called, commanding them to take upon them that degree by a certain day, Fortescue, c. 50; 3 Cro. 1; Dyer, 72; 2 Inst. 213.The monopoly of exclusive audience enjoyed by the serjeants in the Court of Common Pleas, during term time, ineffectually attempted to be abolished by Royal Warrant in 1834 [see In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-law, (1840) 6 Bing NC 235], was abolished in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54.The judges of the Common Law Courts were formerly req...
Callot
A plant coif or skullcap Same as Calotte...
Coif
A cap...
Houve
A head covering of various kinds a hood a coif a cap...
Quoif
See Coif...
Birretum, or Birretus
Birretum, or Birretus, a thin cap fitted close to the shape of the head; the cap or coif of a judge or serjeant-at-law, Spelm....
Infula
Infula, a coif, or a cassock, Jac. Law Dict....
Tena
Tena, a coif worn by ecclesiastics....
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