Legal Definitions - prime serjeant

A Prime Serjeant is a type of barrister in English law who has achieved the highest degree of the legal profession. They were given the primary right of preaudience by royal letters patent.

A Serjeant-at-Law is a barrister of superior grade who, until 1846, had the exclusive privilege of practicing in the Court of Common Pleas. Every judge of the common-law courts was required to be a Serjeant-at-Law until the Judicature Act of 1873. The rank was gradually superseded by that of Queen's Counsel.

Serjeants' Inn was a building on Chancery Lane, London, that housed the Order of Serjeants-at-Law. The building was sold and demolished in 1877.

John is a Prime Serjeant, which means he has achieved the highest degree of the legal profession and has the primary right of preaudience by royal letters patent.

Mary is a Serjeant-at-Law, which means she is a barrister of superior grade and has the exclusive privilege of practicing in the Court of Common Pleas.

The Serjeants' Inn was a building that housed the Order of Serjeants-at-Law until it was sold and demolished in 1877.