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Champarty or champerty

It is an aggravated form of maintenance, See Hutley v. Hutley, (1873) LR 8 Q 112; Attorneys and Solicitors Act (in re:), 1870 (1875) 1 Ch D 573; Holden v. Thompson, 1907 (2) KB 489; Haseldine v.

Certificate

Master's Certificate in Chambers in the Chancery Court, see Ord. LV., part xiii. As to the obligation of solicitors, conveyancers, notaries public, an others to take out annual certificates, see Stamp Act, 1891, ss. 43-48. The certificate

Bar

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

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Agent

c. 23), the expression 'agents' in relation to a company shall be deemed to include the bankers and solicitors of the company and any persons employed by the company as auditors whether those persons are or are

Affidavit

10), repealing 24 enactments from 16 & 17 Car. 2, c. 9, to s. 18 of the (English) Solicitors Act, 1877, regulates the appointment and powers of commissioners to 'administer any oath or take any affidavit' in

Advocates in Aberdeen, Society of

Advocates in Aberdeen, Society of. A society of Solicitors in Aberdeen, originating in 1633. Until the passing of the Law Agents Act of 1873, they enjoyed the

Lawyer

or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters It is a general term comprehending attorneys counselors solicitors barristers sergeants and advocates

Writers to the signet

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

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