Barrenness

Sterility in a female; the incapacity to produce a child.

The incapacity to produce a child. This, when arising from impotence which existed at the time the relation was entered into, is a cause for dissolving a marriage; 1 Fodere, Med. Leg. § 254; where a woman, by an operation, had been rendered incapable of bearing children, known to • the husband before marrying, it was not ground of divorce; Jorden v. Jorden, 93 111. App. 633. not become a usual name until the 16th century. As a popular name it meant an utter barrister; 21 L. Q. R. 253. Inner barrister. A serjeant or king's counsel who pleads within the bar. Outer or Utter barrister. One who pleads without the bar. Because they sat "uttermost on the forms of the benchers which they call the bar." 29 L. Q. R. 25. They are distinguished from benchers, or those who have been readers, and are allowed to plead within the bar, as are the king's counsel. See Utter Barrister. Vacation barrister. A counsellor newly called to the bar, who is to attend for several long vacations the exercises of the house. In the old books, barristers are called apprentices, apprentitii ad legem, or ad barras (from which the term barrister was derived), being looked upon as learners, and not qualified until they obtain the degree of serjeant. Edmund Plowden, the author of the Commentaries, a volume of reports in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth, describes himself as an apprentice of the common law. See generally, Weeks on Attys. § 29. Barristers are now either "utter barristers," now more frequently called "junior barristers," or king's counsel. The former is a person who was formerly a student at an Inn of Court and who has been "called to the bar" by the benchers of his Inn and at his Inn. A recent writer insists that the judges, by statute, alone have the right to call to the bar, i. e. alone can give the "right of audience"; the judges have constituted the benchers of the Inns of Court their deputies for that purpose; W. C. Bolland, 24