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| | "Barrister" Defined |
 | | Vacation barrister, a counsellor newly called to the bar, who is to attend for several long vacations the exercise of the house. |
 | | Barristers are called apprentices, apprentitii ad legem, being looked upon as learners, and not qualified until they obtain the degree of serjeant. |
 | | Edmund Plowden, the author of the Commentaries, a volume of elaborate reports in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth, describes himself as an apprentice of the common law. |
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