c. 54) the serjeants at law always had the exclusive privilege of practice in that court. Every judge of a common-law court, previous to his elevation to the bench, used ‘to created a serjeant at law; but since the judicature act this is no longer necessary. Brown.—Serjeant of the mace. In English law. An officer who attends the lord mayor of London, and the chief magistrates of other corporate towns. Holthouse.—Serjeants’ Inn. The inn to which the serjeants at law belonged, near Chancery Jane; formerly called “Faryndon Inn.”