Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural The four legal societies in England founded about the beginning of the 1300s and having the exclusive right to confer the title of barrister on law students.
  • noun plural The buildings housing the Inns of Court.

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Examples

  • In Bryant's overview, this was the period of the first evolution of parliament, the beginnings of the legal profession ... the building of our decorated and early perpendicular cathedrals and churches ... the genesis of the Inns of Court and the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, the foundation of the first City Companies and of William of Wykeham's school at Winchester.

    Great dynasties of the world: The Plantagenets 2011

  • I somehow doubt they, many of whom were trained in the Inns of Court, would adopt a know-nothing approach, thinking American society would crystalize intime.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and the Sixth Amendment Right “to have the Assistance of Counsel” 2009

  • There are also documents extant on the education of practitioners in relation to the law of bankruptcy in the Inns of Court.

    Tribe on 17th century insolvency law Mary L. Dudziak 2009

  • Ever since the decline of the Inns of Court in the seventeenth century, law students had obtained a lot of their legal education from books.

    The Judicial Education of William de Grey Emily Kadens 2009

  • Within this bibliography we have attempted to include citations relating to insolvency law and related subjects covering: legislation, bills, petitions, readings in the Inns of Court, practitioners texts, and pamphlets.

    Tribe's Bankruptcy Bibliography, 1200s to 1800s Mary L. Dudziak 2009

  • Also, the gossip here at the Faculty heard from the Inns of Court is that the word "bogus" was not the absolute keystone of the decision.

    BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling Jack of Kent 2009

  • The Truth is, I had heard so ill a Character of the Town Amours, as being all Libertinism, and more especially the Inns of Court, that I dreaded to launch on so dangerous a Sea; thinking each

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Now Temple Church – the church of the Inner and Middle Temple, the Inns of Court -- is publicising its next event in this series:

    On their knees in the Temple 2008

  • Now Temple Church – the church of the Inner and Middle Temple, the Inns of Court -- is publicising its next event in this series:

    On their knees in the Temple 2008

  • The Truth is, I had heard so ill a Character of the Town Amours, as being all Libertinism, and more especially the Inns of Court, that I dreaded to launch on so dangerous a Sea; thinking each

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

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