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Doctors' Commons

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a place near St. Paul's Churchyard in London where the doctors of civil law used to common together, and where were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc.
See under Commons.

See also: Commons doctor


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Why, you'd have to go to Doctors' Commons with a suit, and you'd have to go to a court of Common Law with a suit, and you'd have to go to the House of Lords with a suit, and you'd have to get an Act of Parliament to enable you to marry again, and it would cost you
Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context
The maxim that out of evil cometh good, is strongly illustrated by these establishments at home; as the records of the Prerogative Office in Doctors' Commons can abundantly prove.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
Otherwise, scandal, separation, Doctors' Commons would ensue.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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