to read law

to read law
To prepare for the profession. "To read law," while not strictly a technical term to which a certain meaning must attach to the exclusion of all others, is yet an expression with a meaning known to lawyers. Among lawyers the expression means to take up the study of the law with the purpose of being admitted to the bar and practicing the profession. Its meaning is not confined to the preparatory course; but properly includes that reading of cases and textbooks of which every lawyer does more or less after his admission. Benson's Estate, 169 Pa 602, 604, 32 A 654.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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