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(dated, historical, UK) A clerk of a certain title or grade in the British civil service.
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A head or superintending accountant in certain public offices.
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Obsolete form of administrator. [One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager]
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The status or office of an adviser.
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(now rare) Someone acting as the representative of an organisation, country etc.
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(UK, dated, 19th century and earlier) One such who practised in the courts of the common law.
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Alternative form of attorney general [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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(Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
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(law) Abbreviation of Chief Baron. [(UK, historical) The presiding judge of the English Exchequer of Pleas.]
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The senior presiding justice of a court.
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(Scotland) The principal legal adviser to the Lord Advocate on prosecution matters.
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(historical, Roman Catholicism) A canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the proposed candidate.
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(law, chiefly UK) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
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(England and Wales law, historical and rare) The medieval English governmental office that recorded escheated property.
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(UK, law, obsolete) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
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Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union
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(Scotland) An administrator appointed by the courts to manage the estate of someone under some imperfection.
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(law) A huissier de justice, a process server and officer of the court in several European countries.
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The office or dignity of a justice.
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(historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
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(historical) A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
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The role or status of a justiciary.
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(UK, historical) a barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
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(UK, law, informal) Collectively, the five most prestigious London-headquartered multinational law firms: Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, and Slaughter and May.
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The dignity or office of a magistrate.
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(historical) In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions.
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(historical) The able-bodied men over 15 in a given county who can be summoned by the sheriff to help keep the peace, or arrest a felon; also a group of men so gathered.
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(UK) An official at any of several older universities.
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Obsolete form of proctorial. [Of or pertaining to a proctor or to the office of proctorship.]
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The office of a procurator.
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A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
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The office of a procurator.
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The role or position of a procurator.
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The rank or office of a prolocutor.
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(UK) An assistant proctor in a university.
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Alternative spelling of propraetor [A magistrate of ancient Rome who governed a province after serving as a praetor in Rome.]
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The role or status of prosector.
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The rank or office of prosecutor.
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(obsolete, historical) A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.
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Alternative spelling of prothonotary [(obsolete, historical) A chief legal clerk or notary in Roman Byzantium, and (hence) in Rome.]
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(UK, transitive, used in passive, obsolete, military slang) To be delivered to a provost marshal for punishment.
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The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
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A royal messenger, (particularly) one with the authority to execute warrants.
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An officer who examines and prepares causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
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Alternative spelling of quaestor [(historical) An Ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.]
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An officer of exchequer.
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A local official who oversees the running of an election in a given area.
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(Ireland, Hong Kong, Commonwealth outside of the realm, law) an honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer)
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(historical) An official at any of several courts who maintained silence.
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(law, Britain) A barrister having chambers in the Inner Temple or Middle Temple.
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The post or office of umpire.
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(law) A junior barrister.
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(US, historical) A group of private citizens who administered justice where they considered governmental structures to be inadequate.
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