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common lawyer
One versed in, or practising, the common law.
Opposed sometimes to civilian or other foreign lawyer, sometimes to equity or ecclesiastical lawyers in England.
1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. Ded., Twenty..common lawyers. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 90 Denied indeed by our commons-lawyers, but stickled for by some canonists. 1668Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. 7 A Man, though otherwise of pregnant Reason, must not be offended if he be not born a Common-Lawyer. 1885Law Times 169/1 There is a large preponderance of creations of common lawyers [as Q.C.s]. |