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Serjeant [fr. serviens, Lat.], used in several senses:-A feudal tenure by knight service due only to king, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(1) Serjeants-at-law, or of the coif (servientes ad legem), otherwise called serjeants counter, the highest degree in the Common Law, as doctors in the Civil Law; but, according to Spelman, a doctor of law is superior to a serjeant, for the very name of a doctor is magisterial, but that of a serjeant is only ministerial. Serjeants-at-law were made by the sovereign's writ, addressed unto such as are called, commanding them to take upon them that degree by a certain day, Fortescue, c. 50; 3 Cro. 1; Dyer, 72; 2 Inst. 213.The monopoly of exclusive audience enjoyed by the serjeants in the Court of Common Pleas, during term time, ineffectually attempted to be abolished by Royal Warrant in 1834 [see In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-law, (1840) 6 Bing NC 235], was abolished in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54.The judges of the Common Law Courts were formerly req...
Ancient Serjeant
Ancient Serjeant, the eldest of the Queen's Serjeants, See Manning's Serviens ad legem, 19-20, and SERJEANT....
Serjeants' inn
Serjeants' inn. A society consisting of the entire body of serjeants-at-law, which included all the Common Law judges appointed before the commencement of the Judicature Acts. Their property in Chancery lane was sold by auction in 1877, and the proceeds, 57,000l., divided amongst the then members of the Society. See title SERJEANT....
Common serjeant
Common serjeant, a judicial officer of the Corporation of the City of London, appointed by the Crown [Loc. Gov. Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 42 (14)]., and one of the judges of the Central Criminal Court (q.v.); an assistant to the Recorder. See Pulling on the Laws and Customs of London....
Coif
Coif [fr. coiffe, Fr.], the badge of serjeants-at-law, who were called serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wore on their heads under their caps when created serjeants, Cowel. See SERJEANT, and consult Pulling's State and Degree of the Coif....
Reprimand
Reprimand, a formal and public stigmatization of an offence addressed by a judge to a convicted offender, or by an official superior to an inferior, generally in substitution for any other punishment: see, e.g., that enjoined for the first offence against the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (see BIRDS), in the case of a sparrow or other not scheduled bird, and that enjoined in the case of officers convicted by Court-martial, which may be either 'reprimand,' or 'severe reprimand,' by s. 44 (g) of the Army Act.Reprimand, in British Parliament, when either of the House orders a person (other than a Member) to be reprimanded the Speaker, if the person is in attendance in the lobby, directs the Serjeant-at-Arms to bring him to the bar to reprimand that person. If a person, who is to be reprimanded, is not in attendance, the House orders the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him into custody and bring him to the bar on a certain day to be reprimanded, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. H...
Torture
Torture, an account of this atrocious expedient may be found in the Encyclop'dia Britannica (tit. 'Torture'). Reference may also be made to Jardine's Reading on the Use of Torture in the Criminal Law of England previously to the Commonwealth (1837), and an article by Mr. Wyatt Paine in the Law Times of January 28th, 1905, at p. 294, where attention is directed to the preamble of the Act for Pirates, 27 Hen. 8, c. 4 (repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1863).The infliction of intense pain to body or mind to punish; to extract a confession or information, or to obtain sadistic pleasure, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1498.Torture is strictly the infliction of gradually increasing pain for the purpose of extracting confession, or accusation, but it is also used in the secondary sense of those 'cruel and unusual punishments' which, by the Bill of Rights of 1688, 'ought not to be inflicted.' The peine forte et dure (see that title) is also a kind of torture in the prim...
Serjeant
See Sergeant Sergeantcy etc...
Apprenticii ad legem
Apprenticii ad legem, Apprentices to the law-i.e., not servientes ad legem (serjeants-at-law)-barristers. See Fleta, lib. ii. c. 37....
Bar
Bar, (1) a partition running across the courts of law, behind which all outer-barristers and every member of the public must sit or stand. Solicitors, being officers of the court, are admitted within it, as are also King's counsel, barristers with patents of precedence, and serjeants, in virtue of their ranks. Parties who appear in person also are placed within the bar on the floor of the court. (2) the profession of barrister, who is said to be 'called to the Bar.' See BARRISTER.The term 'bar' in Entry 26-A(1) would also include a rod, Alcebax Metals (P) Ltd v. CCF, (1997) 11 SCC 613 (614). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Item 26A(1)]To prevent, esp. by legal objection; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the profession and occupation of lawyer, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44.Means the railing in a court room that enclose the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the Court is transacted in civil cas...
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