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Scroop's Inn
Scroop's Inn, an obsolete law society, also called Serjeant's Place, opposite to St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, London
High Steward, Court of the Lord
Angli'. When the indictment is regularly removed by certiorari, the Lord High Steward addresses a precept to a serjeant-at-arms, to summon the lords to attend and try the indicted peer. All the peers who have a right
Estoppel
as that a tenant cannot dispute his landlord's title; bringing an action of ejectment is an unequivocal act, Serjeant v. Nash, (1903) 2 KB 304. A false representation to create an estoppel must be a representation of
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Customary freeholds
While the freehold interest or estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure is in the lord. (Mr. Serjeant Scriven dissents from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually
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
Central Criminal Court
County Council, (1925) 2 KB 43. The less important offences are tried by either the recorder or common serjeant or the judge of the City of London Court; on every occasion the lord mayor or some of
Birretum, or Birretus
thin cap fitted close to the shape of the head; the cap or coif of a judge or serjeant-at-law, Spelm.
Fitzherbert
Fitzherbert, the most distinguished writer upon law in the reign of Henry VIII. He was first a serjeant, and some years after a judge, of the Common Pleas. The first book published by this learned author
Faryndon Inn
Faryndon Inn, the ancient appellation of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery Lane.
Precedence or precedency
Baronets. || Knights Bannerets. ' Knights of the Bath. ' Attorney-General. ' Solicitor-General. ' The King's Advocate-General. ' Serjeants-at-law. ' Knights Bachelors. ' County Court Judges. || Baronets' eldest sons. || Knights' eldest sons. || Baronets' younger
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