Articled Clerk

One who binds himself by articles to serve in the office of a solicitor, in consideration of receiving instruction.

A person bound by indenture to a solicitor that he may acquire a knowledge pertaining to that business. ARTICLES (Lat. articuius, a joint). Divisions of a written or printed document or agreement. A specification of distinct matters agreed upon or established by authority or requiring judicial action. The fundamental idea of an article is that of an object comprising some integral part of a complex whole. See Worcester, Diet. The term may be applied, for example, to a single complete question in a series of interrogatories; the statement of the undertakings and liabilities of the various parties to an agreement in any given event, where several contingencies are provided for in the same agreement; a statement of a variety of powers secured to a branch of government by a constitution; a In principle. It is also used in the plural of the subject made up of these separate and related articles as articles of agreement, articles of war, the different divisions generally having, however, some relation to each other, though not necessarily a dependence upon each other. In Chancery Practice. A formal written statement of objections to the credibility of witnesses in a cause in chancery, filed by a party to the proceedings after the depositions have been taken and published. The object of articles is to enable the party filing them to introduce evidence to discredit the witnesses to whom the objections apply, where it is too late to do so in any other manner; 1 Dan. Ch. Pr. (6th Am. ed.) *957; and to apprize the party whose witnesses are objected to of the nature of the objections, that he may be prepared to meet them; 1 Dan. Ch. Pr. (6th Am. ed.) *958. Upon filing the articles, a special order is obtained to take evidence; 2 Dick. Ch. 532; which is sparingly granted; 1 Beam. Ord. 187. The interrogatories must be so shaped as not to call for evidence which applies directly to facts in issue; Wood v. Mann, 2 Siunn. 316, Fed. Cas. No. 17,953; Gass v. Stinson, 2 Sumn. 605, Fed. Cas. No. 5,261; Troup v. Sherwood, 3 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 558; 10 Ves. Ch. 49. The objections can be taken only to the credit and not to the competency of the witnesses; 3 Atk. 643; Troup v. Sherwood, 3 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 558; and the court are to hear all the evidence read and judge of its value; 2 Ves. Ch. 219. See, generally, 10 Ves. Ch. 49; 2 Ves. & B. 207; 1 Sim. & S. 467. / In Ecclesiastical Law. A complaint in the form of a libel exhibited to an ecclesiastical court.

A person bound by articles to eerve an attorney or solicitor as a clerk for a term in consideration of instruction in the principles and practice of the profession.

In English law. A clerk bound to serve in the oflice of a solicitor in consideration of being instructed in the profession.

A person bound to senre attorney for his instruction until admitted