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Serjeants' inn
Serjeants' inn. A society consisting of the entire body of serjeants-at-law, which included all the Common Law judges appointed before the commencement of the Judicature Acts. Their property in Chancery lane was sold by … Serjeants' inn. A society consisting of the entire body of serjeants-at-law, which included all the Common Law judges appointed
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Judge
judges of the superior Courts of Common Law (superseded by the High Court of Justice) had to be serjeants-at-law (see that title), and any sergeant-at-law might be appointed judge. The appointment is by the sovereign by letters-patent. … Settlement, they held office during the pleasure of the Crown. They may not sit in the House of Commons. The qualification is, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 9, replacing s. 8 of the Judicature Act, 1873,
Central Criminal Court
London County Council, (1925) 2 KB 43. The less important offences are tried by either the recorder or common serjeant or the judge of the City of London Court; on every occasion the lord mayor or some of
Lord Mayor's Court in London
Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough Courts of Record Act, 1872. The Mayor's and
Fitzherbert
the reign of Henry VIII. He was first a serjeant, and some years after a judge, of the Common Pleas. The first book published by this learned author was his Grand Abridgment, printed in 1514 by Richard
Precedence or precedency
Winchester. * Bishops. * Secretary of State, if a baron. * Barons. ' Speaker of the House of Commons. ' Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal. ' Viscounts' eldest sons. ' Earls' younger sons. ' Barons' eldest … Baronets. || Knights Bannerets. ' Knights of the Bath. ' Attorney-General. ' Solicitor-General. ' The King's Advocate-General. ' Serjeants-at-law. ' Knights Bachelors. ' County Court Judges. || Baronets' eldest sons. || Knights' eldest sons. || Baronets' younger
Camera
in camera, e.g., cases concerning secret processes of manufacture. It has recently been decided (contrary to what was commonly supposed to be the law) that no nullity suit or other matrimonial cause, whatever its nature, can be … Camera [fr. kam'pa, Gk.], the judge's chamber in Serjeants' Inn, Ken. Glos. --means room, chamber, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The judge's private room behind the court.
Esquire
to attend upon him at his installation, and at coronations. See Jac. Law Dict. A title of courtesy commonly appended after the name of a lawyer, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 566. … of ancient families are esquires by prescription. (IV) Esquires by creation or office. Such are the heralds and serjeants-at-arms, and some others, who are constituted esquires by receiving a collar of S.S. Judges and other offices of
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