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Tout

Tout, 'tout' means a person who procures, in consideration of any remuneration moving from any Advocate or from any person on his behalf, the employment of such Advocate in any legal business, or who

Retainer

Retainer. (1) The contract between client and solicitor or between solicitor and counsel for professional services: the contract that such services shall not be given to

Law Officers of the Crown

Law Officers of the Crown, shortly termed 'Law Officers,' the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, this definition was contained in s. 93 of the (English) Patents and Designs Act, 1907, but deleted by

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Indorsement of Address

Indorsement of Address. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IV., it is provided that the solicitor of a plaintiff suing by a solicitor shall indorse upon every writ of summons the address of the

Charging order

R. S.C. 1883, Ord. XLVI., charging the stocks or funds of a judgment debtor with the judgment debt. Solicitor's Costs.--The (English) Solicitors' Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 69, enables any court in

Barrister, or Barrastor

whole law on the subject of counsel's fees is elaborately discussed. He cannot even recover fees from the solicitor to whom the lay client has paid them, Wells v. Wells, (1914) 157. Moreover, the payment of a

Acceptance of service

Acceptance of service of writ of summons by solicitor in lieu of personal service on defendant. See R. S. C., Ord. IX., r. 1. Where with the

Abstract of title

s. 45, and Wolstenholme and Cherry, Conv. Acts, 2nd ed., p. 302. Upon a sale or mortgage, the solicitor of the vendor prepares the abstract at his client's expense (except on sales to a company under the

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

Attorney

legal proceedings on behalf of others, called his clients, by whom he was retained: he answered to the Solicitor in the Courts of Chancery, and the Proctor of the Admiralty, Ecclesiastical, Probate, and Divorce Courts. An attorney

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