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Etiquette, is the forms, manner and ceremonies established by convention as acceptable or required in society, in a profession, or in official life, the rules for such forms, manners and ceremonies, Webster American Dictionary, p. 398.Is the forms, manners and ceremonies established by convention as acceptable or required in society, in a profession, or in official life, the rules for such forms, manners and ceremonies, Webster American Dictionary, p. 398....
Etiquette of the profession
Etiquette of the profession. See BAR COUNCIL....
Barrister, or Barrastor
Barrister, or Barrastor, a counsellor or advocate learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon himself the protection and defence of clients. He is termed jurisconsultus and licentiatus in jure. As to the mode and qualification for obtaining the degree of a barrister, see INNS OF COURT; and consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.'It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), S. 3 (4)]Fees.--A barrister can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but as a mere honorarium or gratuity, and even an express promise by a client to pay money to counsel for his advocacy is not binding, see Re Le Brasseur & Oakley, (1896) 2 Ch 487; Kennedy v. Broun, (1863) 13 CBN S 677, where the whole law on the subject of counsel's fees is elaborately discus...
Regular
Regular, 'regular' means a consistent course of conduct without any break or breach, Mrs. Raj Kanta v. Financial Commissioner, AIR 1980 SC 1464 (1466): (1980) 3 SCC 589: (1980) 3 SCR 1006.Means (1) conforming to a rule or principal systematic; (2) harmonious symmetrical; (3) acting or done or recurring uniformly or calculably in time or manner, habitual, constant, orderly; (4) conforming to a standard of etiquette or procedure, correct, according to convention; (5) properly constituted or qualified; not defective or amateur, pursuing an occupation as one's main pursuit'. The word regular does not mean 'actual', Union of India v. K.B. Rajoria, AIR 2000 SC 1819.Means (1) conforming to a rule or principle; systematic. (2) harmonious, symmetrical (3) acting or done or recurring uniformly or calculably in time or manner habitual, constant, orderly (4) conforming to a standard of etiquette or procedure; correct; according to convention. (5) properly constituted or qualified; not defective or...
Curial
Of or pertaining to the papal curia as the curial etiquette of the Vatican...
De rigueur
According to strictness of etiquette rule or the like obligatory strictly required...
Etiquette
The forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion conventional decorum ceremonial code of polite society...
Indecorous
Not decorous violating good manners contrary to good breeding or etiquette unbecoming improper out of place as indecorous conduct...
Jeffersonian simplicity
The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President 1801 1809 eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee refusal to recognize titles of honor etc...
Punctilious
Attentive to punctilio very nice or exact in the forms of behavior etiquette or mutual intercourse precise exact in the smallest particulars...
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