Possessing learuing; erudite; versed in the law. In statutes prescribing the qualifications of Judges, “learned in the law” designates one who has received a regular legal education, the almost invari-able evidence of which is the fact of hls ad-mlssion to the bar. See Jamieson v. wiggin, 12 S. D. 16, 80 N. W. 137, 46 L. R. A. 317, 76 Am. St. Rep. 585; o’Neal v. McKinna, 116 Ala. 620, 22 South. 905
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
