Keeping Term
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
It was necessary for students in the Inns of Court to keep twelve terms, comprising three years, for admission to the English bar. Each term was three or four weeks, including one grand week. "Keeping the term" was to dine in the hall once in each grand week, and once in each of two half weeks. The terms so kept need not have been consecutive, Robinson, "Bench and Bar."
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
in English Law. A duty performed by students of law, consisting In eating a sufficient number of dinners in hall to make the term count for the purpose of being called to the bar. Moz. & W.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In English law. A duty performed by students of law, consistpose of being called to the bar. Mozley & Whitley.