Preaudience
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The right of being heard before another. A privilege belonging to the English bar, the members of which are entitled to be heard in their order, according to rank, beginning with the queen's attorney general, and ending with barristers at large.
3 Bl. Comm. 28, note; 3 Steph. Comm. 387, note.