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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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No person is admitted without the approbation of a bencher, or of the benchers in council assembled.
The fourth resolution proposed that bencher compensation only be instituted if a referendum authorizing it was passed.
Irene is currently a bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba, the body that governs the legal profession in the province.
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.
He would take his silk as an honour for his declining years, so that he might become a bencher at his Inn.
Ms. Callwood was a bencher on the board of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

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