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law clerk : one (as a law school graduate) who provides a judge, magistrate, or lawyer with assistance in such matters as research and analysis ...
Brief
Brief [fr. brevis, Lat.; brief, Dutch, a letter], an abbreviated statement of the pleadings, proofs, and affidavits in any legal proceeding, with a concise narrative of the facts and merits of the plaintiff's case, or the defendant's defence, for the instruction of counsel at the trial or hearing. See BARRISTER.Also a document bearing the royal signature addressed to bishops and clergy, authorizing the collection in churches of money for charitable purposes therein mentioned. The issue of such documents was regulated by 4 Anne, c. 14, repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 42, and is still legal, though disused for many years.Brief, is a breviated statement of a case which comprises a barrister's instructions to appear at a hearing. It contains all the information and papers to be used by the barrister to conduct the case, including proofs of all witnesses' evidence. Acceptance of brief does not give rise to any contractual obligation between a barrister and either the professional or lay client, Ha...
brief
brief [Old French bref brief letter, writ indicating legal proceedings, from Late Latin brevis breve short document, summary, from Latin brevis, adjective, short] 1 : a concise statement of a client's case written for the instruction of an attorney usually by a law clerk called also memorandum 2 : a formal written presentation of an argument that sets forth the main points with supporting precedents and evidence NOTE: Briefs are filed either by a party or an amicus curiae with a court usually regarding a specific motion (as for summary judgment) or point of law. The form of the brief is determined by the procedural rules of that court or jurisdiction. vt : to write a brief concerning (a motion or question of law) ...
Clerk
Clerk [fr. cleric, Sax.; clericus, Lat.], originally a learned man or man of letters, whence the term is appropriated to churchmen who were called clerks and now clergymen, the nobility and gentry being bred to the exercise of arms, and none left to cultivate the sciences but ecclesiastics. Where the canon law has full power, the word 'clerk' comprehends sacerdotes, diaconi, subdiaconi, lectores, acolyti, exorcist', and ostiarii. The word has been anciently used for a secular priest, in opposition to a religious or a regular, Jac. Law Dict....
Law society
Law society, means a professional organisation in England, chartered in 1845, governing the education, practice and conduct of articled clerks and solicitors. A clerk or solicitor must be enrolled with the law society to be admitted to the legal profession, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 894. See also INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY....
clerk
clerk 1 : an official responsible (as to a court) for correspondence, records, and accounts and having specified powers or authority (as to issue writs) [a city ] [ of court] 2 a : a person employed to keep records or accounts or to perform general office work b : a person (as a law student or graduate) employed by an attorney or judge to assist with case-related tasks (as research) compare paralegal clerk·ship n vi : to act or work as a clerk [ed for a Supreme Court justice] ...
Articled Clerk
Articled Clerk, a pupil of a solicitor, who undertakes, by Articles of clerkship, containing covenants, mutually binding, to instruct him in the principles and practice of the profession. See SOLICITOR.Means a clerk who works for a solicitor in exchange for learning profession, a clerk bound by articles of apprenticeship, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 107....
Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius
Collatione facta uni post mortem alterius, a writ directed to justices of the Common Pleas, commanding them to direct their writ to a bishop, for the admitting a clerk in the place of another presented by the King, who during the suit between the King and the bishop's clerk is departed this life; for judgment once passed for the King's clerk, and he dying before admittance, the King may bestow his presentation to another, Cun. Law Dict.; reg. Brev. 31 b....
Writers to the signet
Writers to the signet, designated by the letters W.S., or, in the case of three of the older established firms in Edinburgh, the letters C.S. (which stand for the words 'clerks to the Signet'), are the senior Society of Solicitors or Law Agents in Scotland. Formerly many privileges were extended to this Society, but most of these have disappeared. See SIGNET and Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 8; see also Bell's Scots Law Dict., voce 'Clerk to the Signet.'...
Libel
Libel [fr. libellus, Lat.; libelle, Fr.]. False defamatory words, if written and published, constitute a libel: Odgers on libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M & W 435, per Parke, B. A statement in a talking film is a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious matter that tends to degrade a man in the opinion of his neighbours, or to make him ridiculous, will amount (when conveyed in writing, or by picture, effigy, or the like, Monson v. Tussauds, Ltd., (1894)1 QB 671, to libel. A writing of fictitious character which incidentally contains the name of a real person may be a libel: see Jones v. Hulton & Co., 1910 AC 20, where Lord ...
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