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ADVOCATES, FACULTY OF

ADVOCATES, See also:
FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)
FACULTY OF , the collective See also:

TERM

term by which what in See also:

England are called barristers are known in See also:

Scotland.. They professionally attend the supreme courts in See also:

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh; but they are privileged to plead in any cause before the inferior courts, where counsel are not excluded by See also:

STATUTE

statute. They may See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act in cases of See also:

APPEAL

appeal before the See also:

House of Lords; and in some of the See also:

BRITISH

British colonies, where the See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

law is in force, it is customary for those who practise as barristers to pass as advocates in Scotland. This See also:

BODY

body has existed by immemorial See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom. Its privileges are constitutional, and are founded on no statute or See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter of See also:

INCORPORATION (from Lat. incorporare, to form into a body)

incorporation. The body formed itself gradually, from See also:

time to time, on the See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of the See also:

French corporations of avocats, appointing like them by a See also:

general See also:

VOTE

vote, a See also:

dean or See also:

DOYEN, GABRIEL FRANCOIS (1726-1806)

doyen, who is their See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal officer. It also differs from the See also:

ENGLISH

English and Irish See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies in that there is no governing body similar to the benchers, nor is there any resemblance to the quasi-collegiate discipline and the usages and customs prevailing in an See also:

inn of See also:

court. No curriculum of study, See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence or professional training was, until 1856, required on entering this profession; but the faculty have always had the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, believed to, be liable to See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control by the Court of Session, of rejecting any See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate for See also:

ADMISSION

admission. The candidate undergoes two private See also:

EXAMINATIONS

examinations —the one in general scholarship, in lieu of which, however, he may produce See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence of his having graduated as See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of arts in a Scottish university, or obtained an See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent degree in an English or See also:

FOREIGN

foreign university; and the other, at the See also:

INTERVAL

interval of a See also:

YEAR

year, in See also:

ROMAN

Roman, private See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

international and Scots law. He must, before the latter examination, produce evidence of attendance at classes of Scots law and See also:

CONVEYANCING

conveyancing in a Scottish university,and at classes of civil; law, public or international law, constitutional law and medical See also:

jurisprudence in a Scottish or other approved university. He has then to undergo the old See also:

ACADEMIC

academic See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the public impugnment of a thesis on some See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the See also:

PANDECTS (Lat. pandecta, adapted from Gr. vrai ,crr)s, all-containing)

pandects; but this ceremony, called the public examination, has degenerated into a See also:

mere form. A large proportion of the candidate's entrance fees (amounting to £339) is devoted to the magnificent library belonging to the faculty, which See also:

LITERARY

literary investigators in Edinburgh find so eminently useful.

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