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of a barrister who claimed to be a "fellow of the Temple". In 2013 John Baker discovered another member of the Outer Temple, Richard Palmer, who was sued in the Court of Common Pleas in 1523 and described as of the Exterior or Outer Temple, London.
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wrote in 1612 "the Utter Temple neither is nor was ever any college or society of students". Regardless, although the present building takes the name, and is located in the area once known as outer-Temple, it is not otherwise historically connected.
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However, this theory overlooks the existence of St George's Inn, a tenth inn of chancery which existed until the late 15th century, when it was abandoned. There is no evidence that Outer Temple was ever anything more than a barristers' chambers.
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divided it between the Inner Temple and Outer Temple, being the parts of the Temple within and without the boundaries of the City of London. (The Inner Temple was in turn divided in two in 1337, the eastern part continuing to be called
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in 2008. Little is known of it, other than that it lacked a hall; Baker suggests that this is the reason that it did not survive long enough to appear in many records. Other writers have insisted that it was never an inn:
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who was said to have come from the Outer Temple. At the time, Simpson debated whether it was a reference to a historical institution or simply a geographical address. In 2008
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courts. As a result, law began to be practised and taught by laymen instead of by clerics. To protect their schools from competition, first
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within the City of London. The lawyers settled immediately outside the City of London as close as possible to
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The Outer Temple building at 222 Strand - a passage through to Middle Temple leads from the left entrance
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and Essex Court/Brick Court (of the Middle Temple), just outside the Middle Temple boundary in the
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was divided, and that part of the Temple property then just outside London was given the name
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Baker (2013), Postscript to “The Inn of the Outer Temple”, in Collected Papers
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There is a 19th-century building called "The Outer Temple", situated between
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Map of London about the 1300s. "Outer Temple" precinct shown at center left.
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The Inner and Middle Temple: Legal, Literary and Historical Associations
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argued that it was most likely an institution with a discovery in the
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It is believed that the Inns of Chancery evolved in tandem with the
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provided for a permanent court. This was the small village of
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in 1218 prohibited the clergy from practising in the secular,
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Watt, Francis; Dunbar Plunket Barton; Charles Benham (1928).
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wrote of ten Inns of Chancery, each one attached to an
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issued proclamations prohibiting the teaching of the
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Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
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Index


the Temple
City of London
Knights Templar
Inn of Chancery
A. W. B. Simpson
John Baker
Sir George Buck
Inns of Court
City of London
papal bull
common law
Henry II
Henry III
civil law
Westminster Hall
Magna Carta
Holborn

Temple
Knights Templar
King Edward II
Inner Temple
Middle Temple
John Fortescue
Inn of Court
A. W. B. Simpson
barrister
Serjeants-at-Law
John Baker

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