A figure in black, with a white face, now displayed itself: barristers and clergymen investigated, but to no purpose.
Barristers and solicitors would be more useful for that purpose.
The barristers engaged in the matter have doubtless verified the fact, that little fish are sweet, for the anchovies have of course yielded some pretty little fees to pretty little juniors.
The Barristers of England, how with sang froid sublime, They undertake to advocate two causes at one time; And when they find it is a thing impossible to do, They throw one client overboard, but take the fees of two.
The Barristers of England, how rarely they refuse, The party they appear against with coarseness to abuse; Feeling a noble consciousness no punishment can reach The vulgar ribaldry they call the "privilege of speech.
The Barristers of England, how listlessly they sit, Expending on each other a small amount of wit; Without the opportunity of doing something worse, By talking nonsense at the cost of some poor client's purse.
The Barristers of England, how sad it is to feel That rant will pass for energy, and bluster goes for zeal; But 'tis a consolation that 'mid their ranks there are Sufficient gentlemen to save the credit of the Bar.
The occupants of this seat are invisible to the great body of spectators, inasmuch as they sit on a much lower level than either the barristers or the audience, whose seats are raised above the floor.
There is a box of barristerson their right hand; there is an enclosure of insolvent debtors on their left; and there is an inclined plane of most especially dirty faces in their front.
Hence also persons duly admitted as pleaders or advocates before the courts of England are denominated barristers (see Barrister), and the whole body of such barristers or advocates are called the bar.
Barristers are also spoken of as counsel, as in the phrase opinion of counsel, that is, a written opinion on a case obtained from a barrister before whom the facts have been laid.
In the United States the term is in common use, and is wide enough to include what in England would be called barristers (or counsel), in Scotland advocates, having indeed the general sense of lawyer.
Barristers are sometimes called utter or outer barristers, to distinguish them from the king's counsel, who sit within the bar in the courts and are distinguished by a silk gown.
It is open to argument that there should not be any civilian Judges; that, as in England, all Judges should be barristers trained in forensic practice.
As puisne Judges, barristers would be sent from England.
In such proceedings, if counsel were needed, English barristers were generally employed.
About 1760, Chief Justice Hutchinson introduced gowns and cassocks there on the Supreme bench, and also gowns, bands, and tie-wigs for lawyers who were admitted as barristers of the Superior Court.
In England there are two such barriers, the class of barristers and the class of attorneys.
So the English assize judges are constituted by special commissions for each circuit, which include also the barristers on the circuit who are sergeants at law, king's counsel, or holders of patents of precedence.
The attorneys keep the people from access to the barristers; the barristers keep the attorneys from access to the court.
On that day the Court of Queen's Bench was crowded with barristers and spectators, in the expectation that the trial would commence.
One great objection to the existing law was, that the decisions of the revising barristers were final; but by this measure an appeal from their decisions, on legal points, was allowed to the court of common-pleas.
Magan was one of the first Catholic barristers called after the Relief Bill of 1793, and wore an aspect highly demure and proper.
Charles Phillips, although he had made the lives of famous Irish barristershis study, as shown in 'Curran and his Contemporaries,' refused to believe any tale to the prejudice of McNally.
The fossil animals which exist in this group are not numerous: they are for the most part decayed barristers and superannuated doctors.
Two Whig barristers of great note, Pollexfen and Wallop, appeared for the defendant.
He frequently poured forth on plaintiffs and defendants, barristers and attorneys, witnesses and jurymen, torrents of frantic abuse, intermixed with oaths and curses.
Success at the Bar comes to barristers in the most capricious manner.
Barristers have their special gifts, and a long and involved case brings them all into play to the advantage of the client.
Barristers had a good time of it in those old days of the Ecclesiastical Courts; the system of appeal was splendidly organized--the pettiest case could gradually be raised into one of great importance.
Nowadays briefless barristers utilize their legal knowledge as financiers and company promoters; before those two honest pursuits had been invented they had to turn their attention to other specs.
Fancy, what an army of barristers must have grown fat on this oyster!
Mootings were questions on doubtful points of law, argued between certain of the benchers and barristers in the hall.
His counsel was Maître Barberoux, one of the foremost criminal barristers of the day; Gurn had thought it prudent to retain him for his defence, more especially as it would cost him nothing personally.
To go through the list, and to mention all the caricatures and drawings I have made, would take so long that I can only mention a few of the present-day barristers and legal celebrities, some of whom I number amongst my friends.
England" which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers.
It is not to be wondered at that so many of you young barristers go to the dogs.
It is not so much the custom now as formerly for unmarried men, barristersand others, to reside in the Temple and the other ancient Inns of Court.
He followed the old man's instructions, and a few minutes later was in a large hall, in which there were a good many people, and groups of robed barristers were gossiping together.
It is the way of the profession, and thus a proper and sufficient number of real barristers finds its way into the House.
Indeed, the most successful barristers are members of Parliament.
The attorneys do not like barristers who are anything else but barristers.
Though he might fail to succeed in court or in chambers, he would doubtless have given to him some one of those numerous appointments for which none but clever young barristers are supposed to be fitting candidates.
He had been brought up to the Bar, but like most barristers had never practised, and had spent his time among animals and the wisdom of the past.
A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
But, Barristers of England, Come to us lovingly, And any Scot who greets you not We'll send to Coventry.
At the time this occurred both barristers happened to be engaged in a case at which, when it was called, Bushe only appeared.
After the table had been cleared a fictitious charge would be made against one of the barristers present, and a mock tribunal was immediately constituted before which he was arraigned and his case duly set forth with all solemnity.
Many witticisms of Westminster Hall, attributed to barristers of the Georgian and Victorian periods, are traceable to a much earlier date.
There were two barristers at the Irish Bar who formed a singular contrast in their stature--Ninian Mahaffy was as much above the middle size as Mr. Collis was below it.
The night before the Court opened he joined the Circuit barristers at a tavern kept by one Sterrit, where the company enjoyed themselves "not wisely, but too well.
All barristers are not briefless," said Mrs. Carlen.
For ten barristers striving to rush into note in my days, you may count twenty or thirty in these.
But, if I understand the matter rightly, the chief trouble of these young barristersis their poverty.
WHEN it was the custom for barristers to leave chambers early, and to finish their evenings at the coffee-houses in the neighborhood of the inns of court, Lord Thurlow on some occasion wanted to see Dunning privately.
AN Irish counsellor having lost his cause, which had been tried before three judges, one of whom was esteemed a very able lawyer, and the other two but indifferent, some of the other barristers were very merry on the occasion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barristers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
