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(obsolete, Ancient Rome) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
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(law) An apprentice in law.
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An honest lawyer who defends the underprivileged and persecuted.
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(Philippines, sometimes US) An honorific given to lawyers and notaries public, or those holders by profession who also do other jobs. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Atty.
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A major government officer throughout the English-speaking world, generally responsible for interpreting the law for the head of government and executive department and functioning as chief prosecutor, with the ability to bring civil and criminal actions directly.
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A person assigned to manage a client's affairs.
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(law) The legal status of a conservator, similar to guardianship or trusteeship.
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(Commonwealth, Japan, law) A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, and who may have (or historically had) additional powers such as investigating cases of treasure trove.
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Someone who is occupied with pursuing criminal prosecution.
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Alternative form of Crown prosecutor [(Britain, Canada, Australia, law) The state prosecutor; the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual in a criminal trial.]
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(US) The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.
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(historical) The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.
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A type of police structure reporting to the judiciary in some countries.
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(law) A junior barrister.
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Alternative form of justicar [(fantasy) A representative and enforcer of the king or ruler's justice.]
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A publicly appointed legal officer (see Wikipedia:Civil law notary)
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(Scotland, law) A solicitor, certified by the Law Society of Scotland.
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(UK, dialect) The stem of a bramble.
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(Scotland, law) An umpire; a third arbiter, appointed when two arbiters disagree.
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(law, archaic) A commission under which a court is empowered to hear and determine a criminal case.
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(law) One who assists a lawyer in routine legal work, but who is without qualified status as a solicitor or barrister (England and Wales), attorney (U.S.), or advocate; known more commonly in the U.S. as a legal assistant.
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(UK, slang, archaic) A proproctor.
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(law) For a specific case or action.
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(obsolete) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
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(derogatory) Management by a proctor, or as if by a proctor; control; superintendence.
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Obsolete form of proctor. [(US) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.]
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The management of another's affairs.
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Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
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(UK, university slang, dated) A proctor.
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(UK, university slang, dated) proctor
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A person who prepares a body for dissection by students, or dissects them as demonstrations.
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Of or relating to a prosector.
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A public officer charged with carrying on the prosecution or representing the state in criminal proceedings and, in some jurisdictions, instituting or representing the state in civil or administrative proceedings.
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(law) a prosecuting attorney.
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(criminal law) Relating to prosecuting of criminal cases.
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A registrar or chief clerk in various courts of law, especially (US) in a county court, (Australia) in certain state Supreme Courts, (Canada) in Federal Court.
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The office or agency of a proxy.
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(UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) an honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen.
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The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
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(UK politics) An annual payment made to opposition parties in the House of Commons, to help them with their costs.
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In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
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In common-law countries, a legal officer who is the chief representative of a regional or national government in courtroom proceedings; sometimes a deputy of the attorney general.
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(US politics, law) A special prosecutor.
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(US, politics, law) A lawyer assigned to investigate, and if necessary prosecute, a case for which there is a conflict of interest for the normal prosecuting authority.
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A title for some attorneys for the federal government of the United States of America. The head of the government attorneys' office and prosecutor's office for a court district in the U.S. federal district court system, which represents the government's position.
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(law) A person (also called gestor) who acts on behalf of another (dominus), without the latter's prior consent. Such agency is called negotiorum gestio.
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