WRITERS TO THE SIGNET

WRITERS TO THE SIGNET
   a body of solicitors in Scotland who had at one time the exclusive privilege of practising in and drawing up cases for the supreme courts of the country, and whose privileges are now limited to the preparation of crown writs.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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