BARRISTER - English law. A counsellor
admitted to plead at the bar.
Ouster barrister, is one who pleads ouster or without
the bar.
Inner barrister, a sergeant or king's counsel who
pleads within the bar.
Vacation barrister, a counsellor newly called to
the bar, who is to attend for several long vacations
the exercise of the house.
Barristers are called apprentices, apprentitii ad
legem, being looked upon as learners, and not qualified
until they obtain the degree of serjeant. Edmund Plowden,
the author of the Commentaries, a volume of elaborate
reports in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Philip
and Mary, and Elizabeth, describes himself as an apprentice
of the common law.
