 | Law - 1804 - 518 pages
...Justice* ought to weigh twenty shillings a-piece ; and that he spake not this expecting a recompense, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it." Bui-net, in the- History of His Own Times, (p. 184,) says that Chie? Justice Keyling prepared the Act... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - Law - 1825 - 332 pages
...Chief Baron ought to weigh twenty shillings apiece ;' and that he spoke not this expectlog arecompence, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it." The motto inscrihod on the rings of these seventeen learned Sergeants would not have disgraced the... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...weigh twenty shillings each. He added, that he did not mention this from any expectation of recompencc, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and that the young gentlemen at the bar might take notice of it. A young student of law, was obliged by lot to inscribe his name... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 368 pages
...weigh twenty shillings each. He added, that be did not mention this from any expectation of recompense, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and that the young gentlemen at the bar might take notice of it. THE SWORD FOR THE GOWN. A young law student was obliged, by lot,... | |
 | 1826 - 484 pages
...were under weight, and at the same time added, that " be (pake not this expecting a recompense, bnt that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and that the young gentlemen in court might take notice of it." Mod. Rep. I. 9. t As the allusion of the learned serjeant may not... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Great Britain - 1837 - 398 pages
...ought to have weighed twenty shillings a-piece ; and that he spoke thus, not expecting a recompense, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it."* Judge Croke thus describes the ceremony of inducting Coke into his office of Chief Justice of the Court... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 404 pages
...ought to have weighed twenty shillings a-piece ; and that he spoke thus, not expecting a recompense, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it."* Judge Croke thus describes the ceremony of inducting Coke into his office of Chief Justice of the Court... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 672 pages
...twenty shillings apiece ; ' and that he spoke not this expecting a recompense, but that it might not he drawn into a precedent, and that the young gentlemen there might take notice of it." WH LAMMIN. Fulham. MR. Foss quotes what he considers the happiest of these mottoes. I think the following... | |
 | Charles Edwards - Rings - 1855 - 272 pages
...rings given to the chief justices and to the chief baron ought to weigh twenty shillings apiece ;' and that he spoke not this expecting a recompence,...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it." 'We consider the matter about Serjeants' rings sufficiently curious and interesting to allow of our... | |
 | Robert Richard Pearce - Admission to the bar - 1855 - 488 pages
...Justices and Chief Baron ought to weigh 20s. a piece; and that he spake not this expecting a recompense, but that it might not be drawn into a precedent, and...the young gentlemen there might take notice of it." The bands which are worn by serjeants and counsel are of great antiquity. They were adopted from the... | |
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Powys, the junior of the batch, a day or two after their creation, he said " that he had something to say to him, viz. That the rings which he and the rest of the serjeants had given weighed but eighteen shillings a piece ; whereas Fortescue, in his Book... 
