sergeant at law
Britishnoun
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He wore the laced coat of a sergeant at law, powdered on the shoulders, as if he had but lately and hurriedly cast off his wig.
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He, in turn, was the son of Sir William Thomson of the Middle Temple, a Sergeant at Law who, to his credit, in 1680 had had the courage to act as counsel for the defendants Tasborough and Price in the malodorous Popish Plot trials of disgraceful memory.
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He was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court as counsellor in 1826 and in 1837 he was called to the degree of Sergeant at Law and he was one of the last to whom the degree was given.
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In 1441 he was made a king’s sergeant at law, and in the following year chief justice of the king’s bench.
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In 1763 he was honored with the degree of Sergeant at Law.
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