| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Doctors' Commons | Doctors' Commons was a society of lawyers practising civil law in London. Like the Inns of Court of the common lawyers, the society had buildings with rooms where its members lived and worked and a big library. Court proceedings of the civil law courts were also held in Doctor's Commons. (references) | ||
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| Doctors' Commons | Literature | A locality near St. Paul's, where the ecelesiastical courts were formerly held, and wills preserved. To "common" means to dine together; a term still used at our universities. Doctors' Commons was so called because the doctors of civil law had to dine together four days in each term. This was called eating their terms. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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