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What is a bencher?

What is a bencher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
  2. (Britain, obsolete, law) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
  3. (Britain, obsolete) An alderman of a corporation.
  4. (obsolete) A member of a court or council.
  5. (obsolete) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
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He caused the breeches of a bencher of Lincolne's Inne to be taken-in by a tayler and made him beleeve that he had the dropsie.
If the approved resolution is so authorized, then the objectives which I set forth when elected as a bencher will be achieved.
He then became an eminent lawyer and bencher of the Inner Temple.
No person is admitted without the approbation of a bencher, or of the benchers in council assembled.
Irene is currently a bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba, the body that governs the legal profession in the province.
He was a bencher of the Inner Temple, and his remains repose in the vault at the south-eastern extremity of the church.

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