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Clerkship

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The period which must be spent by a law-student in the office of a practising attorney bsfore admission to the bar.

1 Tidd, Pr. 61, et seq. In re Dunn, 48 N. J. Law, 359, 39 Am. Rep. 600.

In old English practice. The art of drawing pleadings and entering them on record fa Latin, in the ancient court hand; otherwise called "skill of pleading in actions at the common law."