Case from English Reports (1792) 1 Ltd Raym 604
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1792 |
| Date | 01 January 1792 |
| Court | High Court |
English Reports Citation: 91 E.R. 1304
COURTS OF KING'S BENCH AND COMMON PLEAS
[604] michaelmas term, 12 will. 3, B. E. 1700. Sir John Holt, Chief Justice. Sir John Turton, Sir Henry Gould, Justices. Call of Serjeants. Memorandum, that upon Wednesday the thirteenth of October, Sir Joseph Jekyll, Knight, Chief Justice of Chester, Robert Tracy, Esquire, Judge of the King's Bench in Ireland, and William Hall, Esquire, of the Middle Temple, John Green, John Keen and Henry .Turner, Esquires, of Lincoln's Inn, Charles Whitaker, Thomas Gibbons, Philip NevV Nicholas Hooper, James Mundy, John Pratt, James Selby and Thomas Carthew, Esquires, of the Inner Temple ; Thomas Bury, John Hook, Lawrence Agar and John. Smith of Gray's Inn ; appeared in Chancery, in obedience to writs returnable mense Micbaelis this term, directed to them, requiring them to take upon them the degree of Serjeants at law ; and they took the oaths there, and the Lord Keeper Wright made a very short speech to them. And Wednesday following, being the sixth of November, they came to Gray's Inn Hall (of which society the Chief Justice Holt was) where they rehearsed their counts, and were coifed ; and then they walked to Westminster, and counted at the Common Pleas according to custom, the Lord Keeper being present in Court all the time: And they gave rings, of which the incription was, Imperium et libertas. And then they made an entertainment at Serjeant's Inn Hall in Fleet Street. Precedence. Note; Sir Joseph Jekyll was made King's Serjeant, and therefore he preceded all the others, to all of whom he was junior. Note ; a question arose about Mr. Tracy and Mr. Gibbons and the other Serjeants, about seniority, because they were more...
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