Inns of Court

plural noun

1. the four voluntary legal societies in England Lincoln's Inn, the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, and Gray's Inn that have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar after they have received such instruction and taken such examinations as the Inns provide.
2. the buildings owned and used by the Inns.

Inns of Court

plural noun

1. (in England) the four private unincorporated societies in London that function as a law school and have the exclusive privilege of calling candidates to the English bar See Lincoln's Inn Inner Temple Middle Temple Gray's Inn

Example Sentences

The pecuniary means of Inns-of-Court students have not varied much throughout the last twelve generations.

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He is exceedingly censured by the inns-of-court men, for that heinous vice being out of fashion.

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But he is now gone to the inns-of-court, where he studies to forget what he learned before, his acquaintance and the fashion.

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He is exceedingly censured by the inns-of-court men, for that heinous vice, being out of fashion.

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By his means the law makes more knaves than it hangs, and, like the Inns-of-Court, protects offenders against itself.

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