Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Right of previous audience; precedence or rank at the English bar among serjeants and barristers; the right to be heard before another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eng. Law) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.
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- noun UK, law
Precedence ofrank at thebar amonglawyers .
Etymologies
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pre- + audience
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Examples
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Has he not thrust aside Thessalians, ourselves, Dorians, the whole Amphictyonic body, and got preaudience of the oracle, [Footnote: This privilege, which had belonged to the Phocians, was transferred to Philip.
The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1837
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