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 INNS OF COURT INNSPRUCK 291 in 1845, form one of the noblest piles of build- ing in London. The chambers of this inn are chiefly occupied by chancery barristers, con- veyancers, and persons in attendance on the court of chancery, which court is held in its hall. Attached to the inn are extensive gar- dens, celebrated in the " Tatler," No. 100. Gray's Inn, the fourth inn of court in impor- tance and size, is named from the lords Gray of Wilton, whose residence it originally was. It is in Gray's Inn lane, and has a garden which appears to have been planted with elm trees in 1600 under the direction of Francis Bacon, at that time treasurer of the society. The hall is a very handsome room, built in 1560. Its windows are emblazoned with the armorial bearings of Lord Bacon, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Burleigh, and other eminent members. Each of the inns of court forms an indepen- dent society, but they all agree in the obser- vance of certain common regulations. No per- son can keep a term in any of them without being in the hall on three days when the grace is said after dinner. None of the so- cieties can call a gentleman to the bar before he has been five years a member of the socie- ty, unless he is a master of arts or a bachelor of laws of the university of Oxford, Cam- bridge, or Dublin. No person in trade or in deacon's orders, and no one who has held the situation of a convey- ancer's clerk, can be admitted at all; and solicitors and attor- neys must have their names struck off the rolls for two years, and the articles of clerks must be expired or can- celled two years, be- fore they can be admit- ted. An applicant re- jected by one society will not be admitted by any other. On his admission the student pays various fees amounting to 30 or 40, and enters into a bond of 100 for the payment of his com- mons or dinners while a student. On the ex- piration of his terms he addresses a petition to the benchers at a special council ; and if they approve, he waits upon them after dinner, the oaths are administered, and he is called to the bar. The dues for admission vary in the different inns from 66 in Gray's Inn to 93 in Lincoln's Inn. There are different degrees among the members of the inns. The sergeants are the highest degree at common law, as the doctors are in civil law. Queen's counsel is another rank, admission to which is technically called giving a silk gown, the costume of the bearers of this honor. The benchers of the inns are elected from the barristers at the bar accord- ing to seniority. They govern the society, and may reject an application for admission with- out assigning a reason. The four great inns of court have attached to them inns of chancery, of which the Inner Temple has two, Clem- ent's and Clifford's (formerly also Lyon's, now the Globe theatre) ; the Middle Temple one, New Inn ; Lincoln's- Inn one, Thavies's ; and Gray's Inn two, Barnard's and Staples's. Two others, Furnival's and the Strand, no longer exist. These inns are principally inhabited by attorneys. INNSPRUCK (Ger. Innsbruck), a city of Aus- tria, capital of Tyrol, on both sides of the Inn, near its junction with the Sill, 245 m. W. S. "W. of Vienna; pop. in 1869, 16,810. The name, meaning Inn bridge, is the equivalent of that given to the locality by the Romans, (Eni- pontum ; there are now several bridges. The town is surrounded by steep mountains 6,000 to 9,000 ft high, and is well built, especially Innsprnck. on the right bank of the Inn. The finest street is the Neustatterstrasse, in which are the build- ings where the Tyrolese estates hold their sit- tings, the post office, and a triumphal arch