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Incorporated Law Society
Incorporated Law Society, now termed the Law Society, was founded by Mr. Bryan Holme in 1825, and incorporated in 1831 by Royal Charter; this was surrendered for a new Charter in 1845, by which, as amended...
Temple
Temple, is as 'an edifice or place regarded primarily as the dwelling place or 'house' of a deity; hence an edifice devoted to divine worship. Historically, the word is applied to sacred buildings of Egyptians, Greeks,...
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...
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Pannier-man
Pannier-man, one who called the members in the Inns of Court to dinner, etc., and provided mustard, pepper, and vinegar for the hall; whence those who wait at table at the Inns are called 'panniers.'
Profession
Profession, 'one of a limited number of occupation or vocations involving special learning and carry-ing a social prestige -- the learned professional, law, medicine, and the church', New Lexicon Webster Dictionary, p. 798. A profession ordinarily...
Innkeeper
One who keeps an inn the proprietor or manager of an inn or hotel
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,...
Moot-man
Moot-man, one of those who used to argue the reader's cases in the Inns of Court. See MOOT-CASE.
Degree
Degree [fr. degre, Fr.; degrat, O. Fr.; gradus, Lat.], a step; the difference in relative importance of the same species, also to denote priorities in family relationships; the state of a person, as to be a...
Disbarring
Disbarring, expelling a barrister from the bar, a power vested in the benchers of each of the four Inns of Court, subject to an appeal to the judges. A barrister may be disbarred upon his own...
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