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Barrister

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In England, a counselor who is admitted to plead at the bai', — if as a sergeant or a King's or Queen's counsel, an inner barrister; if without, as any other, an utter or outer barrister. They were anciently called apprentices, apprenticii ad legem, or apprentieii ad barras. The name was also formerly written barraster.