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Inns of Court

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Inns of Court (nz)
pl.n.
1. The four legal societies in England founded about the beginning of the 14th century and having the exclusive right to confer the title of barrister on law students.
2. The buildings housing the Inns of Court.
Inns of Court
pl n
(Law) (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar See Lincoln's Inn, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Gray's Inn
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He was never seen on 'Change, nor at the Bank, nor in the counting-rooms of the "City"; no ships ever came into London docks of which he was the owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court, either at the Temple, or Lincoln's Inn, or Gray's Inn; nor had his voice ever resounded in the Court of Chancery, or in the Exchequer, or the Queen's Bench, or the Ecclesiastical Courts.
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With this brief introduction, she produced from her pocket an advertisement, carefully cut out of a newspaper, setting forth that in Buckingham Street in the Adelphi there was to be let furnished, with a view of the river, a singularly desirable, and compact set of chambers, forming a genteel residence for a young gentleman, a member of one of the Inns of Court, or otherwise, with immediate possession.
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The rising solicitor was struck off the roll, at his own request--and entered himself as a student at one of the Inns of Court.
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