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HISTORICAL USER IN THE ENGLISH LEGAL PROFESSION

The principal instance in recent times of patents of grants of this description has been the grant of precedence to members of the ''

After the Serjeants-at-law lost their exclusive Right Of Audience in the Court Of Common Pleas , it became customary to grant patents of precedence to a number of serjeants, giving them rank immediately after KCs already created and before those of subsequent creation. Mr Justice Phillimore was, on his appointment as a judge of the Queen's Bench division (in 1897) the only holder of a patent of precedence at the bar, except Serjeant Simon, who died in that year, and who was the last of the serjeants who held such a patent.1.


CANADA


In Canada , patents of precedence are granted both by the Governor-General and by the Lieutenant-Governor s of the provinces under provincial legislation which has been declared '' Intra Vires ''.''Att. Gen. for Canada v. Att. Gen. for Ontario'' {Link without Title} AC 247


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