Inns Of Court Definition

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noun
The four legal societies in England founded about the beginning of the 1300s and having the exclusive right to confer the title of barrister on law students.
American Heritage
The four legal societies in London having the exclusive right to admit persons to practice at the bar.
Webster's New World
The buildings housing the Inns of Court.
American Heritage
The four groups of buildings (Gray's Inn, Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, and Middle Temple) belonging to these societies.
Webster's New World

Inns Of Court Sentence Examples

  • Of the former Inns of Chancery attached to these Inns of Court the most noteworthy buildings remaining are those of Staple Inn, of which the timbered and gabled Elizabethan front upon High Holborn is a unique survival of its character in a London thoroughfare; and of Barnard's Inn, occupied by the Mercer's School.

  • The Inns of Court are four - Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn.

  • He was fond of field sports and of music, and in 1633 he had charge of the music in the great masque performed by the inns of court before the king and queen.

  • In the London Inns of Court the senior barristers used to be called "ancients."

  • The Inns of Court School of Law offers electives for the in-house PSC.

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