The Law-Dictionary; Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the English Law Defining and Interpreting the Terms or Words of Art and ... of Law, Trade, and Government Volume 1 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... is a bar material, and a bar at large; bar material may be also called special bar; as when one, in stay of the plaintiff's action, pleadeth some particular matter, viz. a descent from him that was owner of the land, &c. a feoffment made by the ancestor of the plaintiff, or the like; a bar at large is, when the defendant, by way of ex-ception, doth not traverse the plaintiff's title, by pleading, nor confess, nor avoid it, but only makes to himself a title in his bar. IStch. 68. 5 Hen. VII. 29. See tit. Abatement, Action, Judgment, and especially Pleading. This word Bar is likewise used for the place where serjeants and counsellors at law stand to plead the causes in court; and where prisoners are brought to answer their indictments, &c. whence our lawyers, that are called to the bar, are termed barristers. 2$ Hen. VIII. c. 24. BARRASTER, BARRISTER, barrasterias. A counsellor learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon him the protection and defence of clients. They are termed jurisconsulti; and in other countries called licentiati in fure; and anciently barristers at law were called apprentices of the law, (from the French apprendre to learn, ) in Eat. apprcnticii juris nobiliores. Fortesc. The time be-fore they ought to be called to the bur, by the ancient orders, was eight years, now reduced to five; and the exercises done by them, (if they were not called ex gratia, ) were twelve grand moots performed in the inns of chanccry, in the time of the grand readings, and twenty-, four petty moots in the term times, before the readers of the respective inns; and a barrinter newly called was to attend the six (or four) next long vacations the exercise of the house, viz. in Lent and Summer, and was thereupon for...