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Pension of the Inns of Court
Pension of the Inns of Court, an annual payment formerly made by each member to the Houses. Also, that which in the two Temples is called a Parliament, and in Lincoln's Inn a council, is, in Gray's Inn, termed a pension, being an assembly of the benchers to consult upon the affairs of the society. See INNS OF COURT....
Benchers
Benchers, more properly styled Masters of the Bench, seniors in the Inns of Court, usually but not necessarily King's Counsel, elected by co-optation, and having the entire management of the property of their respective Inns. The benchers have also the power of punishing a barrister guilty of misconduct, by either admonishing or rebuking him, by prohibiting him from dining in the hall or using the library, or even by expelling him from the Bar, called disbarring. They may also refuse admission to a student, or reject his call to the Bar, as was done in two cases in 1888. There is an appeal from them to the judges, R. v. Gray's Inn, (1780) 1 Dougl. 353. See Odgers on Inns of Court and of Chancery....
Ancients
Ancients, gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery. In Gray's Inn the Society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple, those who had passed their readings used to be termed ancients. The Inns of Chancery consisted of ancients and students or clerks; from the ancients a principal or treasurer was chosen yearly....
Moot
Moot [fr. gmot, emot, Sax., meeting together], to plead a mock cause; to state and argue a point of law by way of exercise, as was commonly done in the Inns of Court at appointed times, and has of late years been revived in Gray's Inn....
Maxim
Maxim [fr. maximum Lat.], an axiom; a general principle; a leading truth so called, says Coke, quia maxima est ejus dignitas et certissima auctoritas, atque quod maxime omnibus probetur, 1 Inst. 11.Modern opinion, however, does not rate maxims so highly, and Lord Esher, M.R., in Yarmouth v. France, (1887) 19 QBD 653, in connection with Volenti non fit injuria, went so far as to say that they are almost in variably misleading, and for the most part so large and general in their language that they always include something which really is not intended to be included in them. Similarly, the late Mr. Justice Stephen (Hist. Crim. Law, 94) wrote:-'They are rather minims than maxims, for they give not a particularly great, but a particularly small, amount of information. As often as not the exceptions and qualifications are more important than the so-called rules'--which, while they mostly bad abstracts of it. A contrary view, however, is given in a lecture by Mr. H.F. Manistry, K.C., on 'The ...
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