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Definition of Practice of law
1. Noun. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system. "He studied law at Yale"
Generic synonyms: Learned Profession
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Examples of category: Deny, Traverse, Disbar
Derivative terms: Lawyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Practice Of Law
Literary usage of Practice of law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923 by Frank Marshall Eastman (1922)
"With native capacity, supplemented by faithful and energetic preparation, he has
developed an aptitude for the study and practice of law, is still a student ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1889)
"A circuit of a hundred miles radius from London was not deemed too great ; and
a lawyer, who agreed to forego the practice of law for twenty years ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"The practice of law is subject in most states to a similar strict control, »nd
the requirements for admission to the bar ln« been materially raised in a ..."
4. The Bench and Bar of Wisconsin: History and Biography, with Portrait by Parker McCobb Reed (1882)
"In 1879 he returned to Berlin, and resumed the publication of the Courant.
At the same time he began the practice of law, in partnership with AE ..."
5. Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society by Nebraska State Historical Society (1887)
"... TO THE STUDY AND practice of law. BY HH WILSON. [Bead before the Society,
January 12, 1887.] In this age of accumulated knowledge, he who would know any ..."
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