Coif

A headdress. In England there are certain Serjeants at law who are called Serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wear on their heads ' under their thin caps when they are admitted to that order. It was anciently worn as a distinguishing badge. Spelman. COJUDICES (Lat.)

In old English law. Associate judges having equality of power with others.

A head-dress. In England there are certain Serjeants at law who mitted to that order. It was anciently worn as a distinguishing badge. When powdered wigs were introduced, a round patch of black silk edged with white was worn on the crown of the wig as a diminutive representation of the coif and cai> Pulling, Order of the Coif.

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In English practice. A covering for the head, formerly worn as a distinctive badge by Serjeants at law, — originally, it is supposed, to conceal the clerical tonsure.

A title given to serjeants at law, who are called “serjeants of the coif,” from the coif they wear on their heads. The use of this coif at frst was to cover the clerical tonsure, many of the practising serjeants be ing clergymen who had abandoned their profession. It was a thin linen cover, gathered together in the form of a skull or helmet; the material being afterwards changed into white silk, and the form eventually into the black patch at the top of the forensic wig, which is now the distinguishing mark of the degree of gerjeant at law. (Cowell; Foss, Judg.; 3 Steph. Comm. 272, note.) Brown,

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[L. Lat coifa, from Fr. coiffe; birretum.] In English practice. A covering for the head, formerly worn as a distinctive badge by Serjeants at law, {tegmen capillare album quo insigniuntur servienies ad legem.) Spelman, Yoc. Coifa. It is men tionedbv Matthew Paris as early as A. D. 1259, under the name of coifa, from the Fr. coiffe. Sir John Fortescue calls it birretum, (q.v.) De Laud, Leg. Angl. c. 50. The original use of this covering is supposed to have been, to conceal the clerical tonsure, (q.v.) Matt. Par. apud Spelman, ub. sup.

a head-dress. In England there are certain serjeants at law, who are called serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wear on their heads under their thin caps when they are created.