blackstone lawyer
Blackstone lawyer. Slang. 1. A lawyer with a broad knowledge of blackletter principles. 2. A self-educated lawyer (esp. in antebellum America) whose legal training consists primarily of reading Blackstone’s Commentaries.
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court hand
court hand. Hist. A script style used by English court clerks, the words being abbreviated and contracted according to a set of common principles for maintaining brevity and uniformity. • This type of writing, along with the use of Latin (except for technical or untranslatable phrases), was banned early in the 18th century in an
responsa prudentium
responsa prudentium (ri-spon-s[schwa] proo-den-shee-[schwa]m). [Latin “the answers of the learned”] Roman law. The opinions and judgments of eminent lawyers or jurists on questions of law addressed to them. • The responsa prudentium originally constituted part of the early Roman civil law. Roman citizens seeking legal advice, as well as magistrates and judges, often referred legal
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