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King’s Chambers

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Great Britain, which are inclosed within headlands so as to be cut off from the open sea by im- KING’S (or QUEEN’S) COUNSEL. Barristers or serjsanis who have been called within the bar and selected Lo be the king’s eoinsel, They answer in some measure to the edvocati fisei, or advocates of the rev- énue, aniong the Romans. They must not be employed against the crown without special leave, which is, however, always granted, atacost of about nine pounds.

3 LI.Comm. 27.