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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

Coke, Sir Edward

Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I. referred the whole matter to Bacon, the Attorney-General, and others learned in the law. Acting upon the recommendations of this committee of counsel, James I. decided the matter in

Firm

law, see Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 948, per Joyce, J., and the instances there given by the learned judge of the effect of a legacy or an assurance to a firm. See BUSINESS NAMES. The title

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Fitzherbert

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 Pynson, of which in 1516 a second edition

Freedom of expression

India, AIR 2003 SC 2363: (2003) 4 SCC 399. [Constitution of India, Art. 19(1)(a)] Freedom of expression, as learned writers have observed, has four broad social purpose to serve: (i) it helps an individual to attain self-fulfilment,

Civil Law

This Code was followed until suppressed by Justinian's order, and is not unworthy of the attention of the learned. The editor and expounder of the Theodosian Code is Jacobus Gothofredus, or Godfroy, who is the first and

Lawyer

Lawyer, a person learned in the law, as a counsel, or solicitor.

Suffragan

bishop disposed to have a suffragan should name to the king 'two honest and discreet spiritual persons, being learned and of good conversation,' and that each of them should request the king to appoint one of them.

Mulla

Mulla, the word 'Mulla' is defined as a learned man. This obviously is the etymological meaning, being the same as Moulvi or Maulana, but it has also

Runer

A bard or learned man among the ancient Goths

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