Clerkship

In practice

The period during which a person is required to serve in the office of a practising attorney or solicitor, in order to qualify himself to practice as an attorney or solicitor. The person so serving is properly termed a clerk, and in England, (from the circumstance of his being bound by written articles) an articled clerk.

1 Tidd's Pr. 61-70. 1 Archb. Pr. 14-18. Arch. New Pr. 105. Stat. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73.

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

Towns. Pl. 1-5, 12-25, et passim.

Clerkship, in the court of Common Pleas, was formerly a distinct profession of itself.

Id. 2.

See Court hand, Law Latin.