Doctors Commons
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
An institution near St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts were held until the year 1857.
3 Steph. Com. 306, n.
In 1768 a royal charter was obtained by virtue of which the members of the society and their successors were incorporated under the name and title of "The College of Doctors of Laws exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts." The College consists of a president (the dean of the arches for the time-being) and of those doctors of laws who, having regularly taken that degree in either of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college in the manner prescribed by the charter.