Definition of Counsel to the Crown

1. Noun. A barrister selected to serve as counsel to the British ruler.

Generic synonyms: Barrister
Specialized synonyms: King's Counsel, Queen's Counsel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counsel To The Crown

Coulter counter
Coulterism
Coulterisms
Coumadin
Coumarouna
Coumarouna odorata
Coumel's tachycardia
Council Bluffs
Council of Chalcedon
Council of Economic Advisors
Council of Trent
Council on Environmental Policy
Councilman's lesion
Councilman body
Councilmania
Counsel to the Crown (current term)
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Count Alessandro di Cagliostro
Count Branicki's mice
Count Branicki's mouse
Count Dracula
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Count Fleet
Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
Count Rumford
Counter-Reformation
Counter Reformation
Counterterrorist Center

Literary usage of Counsel to the Crown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1881)
"The relations of Queen's Counsel to the Crown, may be better understood when it is stated that the two principal members of that select body, ..."

2. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"At the present day a peer would hesitate to offer counsel to the Crown on any matter which fell within the province of the Ministry of the day. ..."

3. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England : and by John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely (1892)
"Queen's Counsel, barristers appointed counsel to the Crown, and called within the bar. They answer in some measure to the advocates of the revenue, ..."

4. Sketches of the Irish Bar by Richard Lalor Sheil, Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1854)
"Mr. O'Conn ell, who was for many years at the head of his profession in Ireland, never was made Counsel to the Crown, owing to his politics being hostile to ..."

5. Sketches of the Irish Bar by Richard Lalor Sheil, Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1854)
"Mr. O'Connell, who was for many years at the head of his profession in Ireland, never was made Counsel to the Crown, owing to his politics being hostile to ..."

6. Mr. Serjeant Stephen's New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (partly by Henry John Stephen, Edward Jenks (1903)
"In addition to the creation of counsel to the Crown, :i custom has in modern times prevailed of granting letters patent of precedence among themselves, ..."

7. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"... in which capacity he made ' an ornate oration before the king's majesty.' His patent of counsel to the crown was renewed by Mary on her accession. ..."

8. The Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart.: Delivered by Robert Peel (1853)
"... taxing officers of law courts ; barristers, counsel to the crown for the six circuits, for the assizes of 1823 ; barristers, counsel to the customs, ..."

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