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    A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law...
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  • is a list of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law at the Bar of Ireland. The first recorded serjeant was Roger Owen, who was appointed between...
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  • Army regiments, notably The Rifles Serjeant-at-arms, an officer appointed to keep order during meetings Serjeant-at-law, an obsolete class of barrister in...
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  • A serjeant-at-arms or sergeant-at-arms is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings. The word...
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    Barrister (redirect from Barrister-at-Law)
    Wizard of Oz Musical (RSC) Bar (law) Barristers' Ball Legal professions in England and Wales Revising Barrister Serjeant-at-law Special Pleader "Clementi report"...
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    Serjeant William Ballantine SL (3 January 1812 – 9 January 1887) was an English Serjeant-at-law, a legal position defunct since the legal reforms of the...
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  • and narrator of the series, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn and later Serjeant-at-law. Initially an adherent to the new Anglican faith, and ever a religious...
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    The Common Serjeant of London (full title The Serjeant-at-Law in the Common Hall) is an ancient British legal office, first recorded in 1291, and is the...
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  • name is a reference to the ancient English order of advocates, the serjeants-at-law, whose courtroom attire included a coif—a white lawn or silk skullcap...
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    The Attorney General was initially junior to the serjeant-at-law, but since the titles King's Serjeant and King's Attorney were often used interchangeably...
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  • the English East India Company William Hawkins (serjeant-at-law) (1673–1746), English serjeant-at-law and legal writer William Hawkins (priest) (1722–1801)...
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    Harris (1547–1610) was an English barrister and politician. He became serjeant-at-law in 1589. He was the son of Edward Harris of Cornworthy and Phillipa...
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  • of serjeant-at-law, hence his nickname The Last Serjeant. A younger son of A M Sullivan and Frances Donovan, he was born in Dublin and educated at Beaumont...
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  • Hawkins (1682–1750) was a barrister and serjeant-at-law, best known for his work on the English criminal law, Treatise of Pleas of the Crown. He graduated...
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    dating from 1461. Early Solicitors almost always held the like of Serjeant-at-law. For some forty years in the sixteenth century a Principal Solicitor...
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    Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden (category Serjeants-at-law (England))
    preparation of the Act of Supremacy. In 1531 he had been made a serjeant-at-law and king's serjeant; and on 20 May 1532 he was knighted, and succeeded Sir Thomas...
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    now-defunct senior grade of English lawyer, the Serjeant-at-Law even after they became judges. A United States law school honor society is called the Order of...
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    King's Counsel (category Common law)
    formerly more senior serjeant-at-law by superseding it. The attorney-general and solicitor-general had similarly succeeded the king's serjeants as leaders of...
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  • then-existing "law of the land requires" a tenant to be summoned by two summoners. In 1550, it was said by John Pollard, who was a serjeant-at-law and later...
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    to the possession of a doctorate, the Doctors of Law had precedence equal to that of a Serjeant-at-Law and for this reason the convention remains that...
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    John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst (category Serjeants-at-law (England))
    Inn in 1804, he gained a considerable practice. He was appointed a serjeant-at-law on 6 July 1813. In 1817, he was one of the counsel for Dr J. Watson...
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    Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (category Serjeants-at-law (England))
    appointment of serjeants-at-law had already declined, but common law judges could only be appointed from amongst the serjeants-at-law, so it was customary...
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  • John Tirel (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
    judge and statesman in fourteenth-century Ireland who held office as Serjeant-at-law and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. He was the son of Warin...
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    Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (category Serjeants-at-law (England))
    foundation of an extensive common law practice. In 1824, he was made Serjeant-at-Law, and in 1827 King's Serjeant. He first entered parliament in the...
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  • appointed serjeant-at-law in 1677. He was knighted on 16 April 1679. In 1686 he became King's Serjeant. Holt died at the age of 70 and was buried at St. James's...
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  • Gaselee MP (1807 – 20 October 1883) was a serjeant-at-law. Gaselee, eldest son of Sir Stephen Gaselee, was born at 77 Upper Guildford Street, Russell Square...
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    David Hanmer (category Serjeants-at-law (England))
    1376, Hanmer was appointed a serjeant-at-law. As a contemporary of Chaucer, a rough portrait of Hanmer as a serjeant-at-law may be found in Chaucer's depiction...
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    having been Called to the Bar at Middle Temple earlier in the year. Fourteen years later, he was created a serjeant-at-law and led the court with William...
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  • Edward Somerton (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
    (died 1461) was an Irish barrister and judge who held the offices of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and the...
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    James Adair, KS (c.1743 – 21 July 1798) was an Irish-born judge, serjeant-at-law, and Member of Parliament, who spent his career based in London. Adair...
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