“ In the United States the word has, to a certain extent, a different meaning, a brief in its English sense not being required, for the American attorney exercises all the functions distributed in England between barristers and solicitors. A lawyer sometimes prepares for his own use what is called a “trial brief” for use at the trial. This corresponds in all essential particulars with the “brief” prepared by the solicitor in England for the use of counsel. But the more distinctive use of the term in America is in the case of the brief “in error or appeal,” before an appellate court. ”