Inns of Court

plural noun

the four voluntary legal societies in England (Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn) that have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar after they have received such instruction and taken such examinations as the Inns provide.

the buildings owned and used by the Inns.

Example sentences from the Web for inns of court

He is exceedingly censured by the inns-of-court men, for that heinous vice being out of fashion.

Microcosmography |John Earle
Feast-days in the colleges of our universities are so called, as they were formerly at the inns-of-court.

Folk-lore of Shakespeare |Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
The pecuniary means of Inns-of-Court students have not varied much throughout the last twelve generations.

A Book About Lawyers |John Cordy Jeaffreson
He is exceedingly censured by the inns-of-court men, for that heinous vice, being out of fashion.

Character Writings of the 17th Century |Various

Moot is a term used in the Inns-of-Court, and signifies the handling or arguing a case for exercise.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 (of 15) |Robert Dodsley

British Dictionary definitions for inns of court

Inns of Court

pl n

(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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Inns of Court

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Example sentences from the Web for inns of court

British Dictionary definitions for inns of court

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