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Definition of Disbarment
1. Noun. The act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Disbar
Definition of Disbarment
1. n. Act of disbarring.
Definition of Disbarment
1. Noun. (legal) The disqualification of a lawyer from membership in a bar association, usually as punishment for wrongdoing; the result of being disbarred. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disbarment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disbarment
Literary usage of Disbarment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Attorneys at Law by Edward Mark Thornton, Hiram Thomas (1914)
"Disavowal — See disbarment. disbarment — Abuse of authority as ground for ...
Accomplice, admissibility of evidence of in disbarment proceeding, 1310. ..."
2. Ethical Obligations of the Lawyer by Gleason Leonard Archer (1910)
"criminal offense that involves moral turpitude is a ground for disbarment.
Embezzlement, larceny, maintenance, and champerty are perhaps the most common ..."
3. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1888)
"... acting aa notary in case where he is employed ai »ttor ney, 378. affidavit taken
before, whether may be received in evidence, 378. causes for disbarment ..."
4. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1889)
"Causes not ground for disbarment. § 132. Suspension for a time. § 133. ...
Practice on disbarment proceeding — Proof—Appeal. § 135. ..."
5. Cases and Other Authorities on Legal Ethics by George Purcell Costigan (1917)
"GROUNDS OF disbarment fl (A) In general SOME ENGLISH STATUTES. ... No all-inclusive
statement of grounds of disbarment, that attempts to be specific can be ..."
6. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1896)
"Acts providing for the disbarment and suspension of attorneys are penal in their
... —Wherever disbarment and suspension have been made the subject of ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Agency in Contract and Tort: Including Special by George Louis Reinhard (1902)
"Further as to disbarment of attorneys.—It is not necessary that professional
misconduct should amount to contempt of court in order to furnish grounds for ..."
8. The Law as a Vocation by Frederick James Allen (1913)
"disbarment disbarment Statute in Massachusetts disbarment Statute in California
and to public duty, as an honest man and as a patriotic and loyal citizen. ..."
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