| 单词 | serjeant of the coif | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasserjeant of the coif  a.  A member of a superior order of barristers (abolished in 1880), from which, until 1873, the Common Law judges were always chosen (hence a serjeant was always called by a judge ‘my brother So-and-so’). More explicitly,  serjeant at (†the) law,  †serjeant of (the) law. Sometimes called  serjeant of the coif: see coif n. 3b.The title represents the law Latin serviens ad legem, which may be rendered ‘one who serves (the king) in matters of law’. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > 			[noun]		 > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > serjeant sergeant1297 countourc1325 the King's (or Queen's) Serjeant1423 servant1511 1297    R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8833  				Mid is wisdom þat was so muche he hom out drou & false serians of assise & dude hom ssame ynon. 1340    R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6084  				Þai sal þan na help gett Of sergeaunt, ne auturne, ne avoket. 1362    W. Langland Piers Plowman A.  iii. 276  				Schal no seriaunt for þat seruise were a selk houue. 1404    Rolls of Parl. III. 549/1  				The Kynges entent is, to assigne..alle his Justices, and his Sergeantz. c1405						 (c1387–95)						    G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 		(Hengwrt)	 		(2003)	 l. 311  				A Sergeaunt of lawe waar and wys. c1435    in  Kingsford Chron. London 		(1905)	 57  				Markham the Justice and Gascoigne Seriaunt of lawe. 1486    Bk. St. Albans f vj b  				A sotelty of sergeauntis. 1501    in  T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. 		(1839)	 152 		(note)	  				John Yaxley, Sergent at the Law. 1503    in  N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York 		(1830)	 101  				Item to John Mordant Sargeant at Lawe xl s. 1534    J. Heywood Play of Loue sig. Ciii  				Nowe am I a iudge and neuer was seriaunt. 1540    J. Palsgrave tr.  G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus  ii. iii. sig. Ljv  				To Poules crosse, or to the barre, where sergeantes plede in westmister hall. 1552    King Edward VI Jrnl. Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) 415  				Also ther ware appointed eight sergeants of the law against Michelmas next comming. 1597    R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie  v. lxvi. 173  				A linnen Coife..an ornament which only Sergeants at law doe weare. 1602    J. Chamberlain Let. 8 May 		(1939)	 I. 144  				One Pelham a lawier was made sergeant to be sent cheife baron in to Ireland. 1656    T. Blount Glossographia  				Sergeant at Law (or of the Coyf) is the highest degree, taken in that profession, as a Doctor of the Civil Law. 1697    J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in  tr.  Virgil Wks. sig. a3  				A Judge upon the Bench..does not willingly commend his Brother Serjeant at the Bar, especially when he controuls his Law. 1710    J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia 		(ed. 23)	  i. ii. xv. 122  				None may be Judge in this Court, unless he be a Sergeant of the Degree of the Coif. 1711    J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶1  				At present he is a Serjeant at Law. 1712    J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses viii. 35  				Serjeant such a one has a Silver Tongue at the Bar. 1764    Oxf. Sausage 172  				Marking grave Serjeants cite each wise Report. 1819    W. P. Taunton Rep. Cases Comm. Pleas VII. 183  				Lens and Vaughan, Serjts. now shewed cause against this rule. a1832    Encycl. Metrop. 		(1845)	 XX. 762/2  				Three Inns have belonged from very early times to the Judges and Sergeants at Law. 1837    J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II.  iv. iv. 272  				Serjeants-at-law were bound by a solemn oath to do their duty to their clients. 1841    Penny Cycl. XXI. 272/1  				A paper endorsed with..the words ‘Mr. Serjeant A (or ‘Mr. B’), retainer for the plaintiff’ (or for the defendant). 1873    Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 66 §8  				Provided, that no person appointed a Judge of either of the said Courts shall henceforth be required to take, or have taken, the degree of Serjeant-at-Law. < as lemmas  | 
	
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