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Utter Barristers, barristers who plead 'without' the bar; all such counsel as are not either King's Counsel or Serjeants-at-law. See Cowel, tit. 'Barraster.'...
Barrister, or Barrastor
Barrister, or Barrastor, a counsellor or advocate learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon himself the protection and defence of clients. He is termed jurisconsultus and licentiatus in jure. As to the mode and qualification for obtaining the degree of a barrister, see INNS OF COURT; and consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.'It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), S. 3 (4)]Fees.--A barrister can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but as a mere honorarium or gratuity, and even an express promise by a client to pay money to counsel for his advocacy is not binding, see Re Le Brasseur & Oakley, (1896) 2 Ch 487; Kennedy v. Broun, (1863) 13 CBN S 677, where the whole law on the subject of counsel's fees is elaborately discus...
barrister
barrister [Middle English barrester, from barre bar + -ster (as in legister lawyer)] 1 : a lawyer who argues cases before a British court ;esp : one who is allowed to argue before a British high court compare solicitor NOTE: Many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and the Republic of Ireland divide the legal profession into barristers and solicitors. In Canada, every lawyer is both a barrister and a solicitor, although individual lawyers may describe themselves as one or the other. Scotland uses the term advocate to refer to lawyers allowed to argue cases in its courts. 2 : lawyer ...
barrister-at-law
barrister-at-law pl: barristers-at-law : barrister often used as a formal title ...
Revising Barristers' Courts
Revising Barristers' Courts were courts presided over by a revising barrister which were held throughout the country each autumn to revise the list of voters for members of Parliament, for town councillors, and for county councillors. A revising barrister was appointed for one year, and was a member of the junior Bar of at least seven (originally three) years' standing. An appeal lay on a point of law to the High Court. These courts were finally abolished by the Representation of the People Act, 1918, which repealed the statutes under which they existed (Sch. VIII.)....
Barrister
Barrister, is the name of a degree, also denotes a person who practises that profession. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 351, p. 271.Barrister, is a lawyer who argues cases before a British Court; especially one who is allowed to argue before a British High Court, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 45....
Barrister in independent practice
Barrister in independent practice, is barrister who holds himself out to the public generally as willing, in return for the payment of fees, to render legal services to clients, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 444, p. 349....
Uttering
Uttering, tendering; selling; putting in circulation; publishing. Knowingly uttering counterfeit coin is a misdemeanour, and after two prior convictions a felony, by the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, s. 21. Knowingly uttering a forged document is punishable as forgery, The (English) Forgery Act, 1913, s. 6.The crime of presenting a false or worthiness instrument with intent to harm or defraud, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
excited utterance
excited utterance : a statement that concerns a startling event (as a physical assault) and that is made by a person while under stress caused by the event see also res gestae spontaneous declaration at declaration compare dying declaration at declaration NOTE: Excited utterances are an exception to the hearsay rule. They may be admitted as evidence even if the declarant is available as a witness. ...
spontaneous utterance
spontaneous utterance : spontaneous declaration at declaration ...
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