Temple
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Two of the inns of court. At the suppression of the order of knights templars, their dwelling- was purchased by the professors of the common law, and converted into inns of court, in the year 1340. They are called the Inner and Middle Temple. Essex House, built in 1185, was formerly a part of the house of the templars, and was called the Outer Temple, because it was situated without Temple Bar. {Haydn Diet. Dates.) Brown.