DOCTORS’ COMMONS

Doctors’  Commons.Hist.  Informal.  The  College  of  Advocates  and  Doctors  of  Law,  which

trained  specialists  in  admiralty  and  ecclesiastical  law  and  housed  admiralty  and  ecclesiastical

courts  from  the  16th  century  to  the  19th.  •  The  College  was  dissolved  in  the  1860s  after  its

functions were absorbed by the High Court. — Sometimes written Doctors’ Common. [Blacks Law 8th]