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Obsolete spelling of attorney [(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.]
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For the purpose of a legal case, as in guardian ad litem.
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Alternative form of advocaat (“egg liqueur”) [A Dutch liqueur made of egg yolks, sugar and strong liquor, typically brandy.]
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A senior law officer advising a government.
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(now rare) The office or function of an advocate; advocacy.
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Obsolete form of avoyer. [(obsolete or historical) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.]
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(derogatory) An unethical attorney who solicits business at the scenes of accidents or in hospitals, in exchange for a percentage of the damages that will be recovered in the case.
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Alternative form of apparitor [(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.]
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The role or status of assignee.
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(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.
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Alternative spelling of attorney-at-law [A lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a lawsuit.]
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(law) In a legal proceeding, an attorney who has submitted his name to the court or tribunal as the person responsible for representation of the client, irrespective of which attorneys perform work for that client.
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A lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a lawsuit.
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(US, law) An agent of the person giving him/her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf. The attorney-in-fact’s power and responsibilities depend on the specific powers granted in the power of attorney document.
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(obsolete or proscribed) Alternative spelling of attorney [(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.]
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Obsolete spelling of attorney [(US) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession.]
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Someone who is in a position of authority.
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Alternative form of barrator [One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.]
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(chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.
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the art or practice of being a barrister.
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(slang, archaic, rare) A legal practitioner who is either a barrister or a solicitor.
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(Australia, New Zealand) One who is not qualified in law yet attempts to expound on legal matters.
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A publicly appointed legal officer.
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(law) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
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An expert in the codes of civil law.
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power of control, direction or disposal; mastery.
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A magistrate with the authority to conduct preliminary hearings and to decide whether the evidence merits a criminal case.
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One who accompanies a sheriff's officer as witness.
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(obsolete, law) A person who swears an oath along with others
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The role or status of a consignee.
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A meeting convened to address a crisis or to make a plan of attack.
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Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
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(UK) An official record that lists the engagements carried out by the monarch and Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and appointments to their staff and to the court.
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(historical) A modification of the Norman handwriting, as distinguished from the modern or Italian handwriting, in use in the English law-courts from the 16th century until the reign of George II.
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Having undergone a court-martial.
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(Canada) An attorney who represents the federal or provincial government in a court of law.
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(Britain, law, obsolete) A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs.
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(US) A lawyer who regularly represents criminal defendants.
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In Commonwealth countries, a solicitor whose services are available for free to a person either suspected of, or charged with, a criminal offence, if that person does not have access to a solicitor of their own.
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The state or business of an escheator.
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(transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.
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(law) The role of executor.
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(UK, law, historical) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).
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(law) Initialism of guardian ad litem, an individual (often a lawyer) appointed to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person for the purpose of a legal procedure. [An individual (often a lawyer) appointed to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person for the purpose of a legal procedure.]
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An individual (often a lawyer) appointed to represent the best interests of a child or incapacitated person for the purpose of a legal procedure.
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Obsolete form of umpire. [(tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.]
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(US, law, politics) A special prosecutor
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One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
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Any similar association in Ireland, the United States, etc.
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(UK, law) The legal profession as practised by Queen's Counsel.
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(UK, Canada) A person who supervises students during an examination; a proctor
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(law) A barrister who has not yet attained the rank of Queen's Counsel.
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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 king.
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(Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
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(UK, colloquial) The burbot.
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Someone occupied with legal services in place of a lawyer.
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(informal) A skillful and adroit attorney
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(law) A lawyer, solicitor, etc, who acts on behalf of a client in legal matters.
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The role or status of legatee.
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The role or status of licentiate.
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(comparable) Connected with or relating to armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
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Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.
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(law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
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(slang) A lawyer for the defense.
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(law) A situation in which a gestor acts on behalf of a principal for the benefit of that principal, but without the consent of that principal
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(perjoratively, by comparison to silk) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel who was appointed as a courtesy, rather than on merit.
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An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.
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An appointed official whose duty is to investigate complaints, generally on behalf of individuals such as consumers or taxpayers, against institutions such as companies and government departments.
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A lawyer who has only worked in a small town, lacking the experience and sophistication of more prominent lawyers.
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Obsolete form of apparitor. [(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.]
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A person or firm serving as a trustee or trust protector, executor or personal representative, or discretionary or non-discretionary investment agent managing or impacting the management of assets for or on behalf of individuals and families, and the trusts, estates, private foundations and other entities they establish or control.
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(US) A clever, crafty, or otherwise extremely adroit practitioner of law.
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(law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
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(military, historical) An officer acting as counsel for the defendant in a court-martial.
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(law, UK, obsolete) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it and accused his accomplices in order to obtain pardon.
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The act of procuring; procurement.
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(law) A member of a legal organisation that carries out research and other support duties
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(law) The prosecuting party.
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(proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
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(law) An attorney appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire one.
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(law) A form of apprenticeship for prospective barristers
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(UK, historical) a barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a queen.
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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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A person who settles a dispute.
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The practice of charging a retainer fee, or a client relationship based on such a fee.
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(colloquial) A Queen's Counsel, King's Counsel or Senior Counsel.
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In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
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(US) A professional, other than an attorney, who provides advice and representation regarding children with educational disabilities.
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(Scotland) A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
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(law) A court that is under the control or authority of another
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A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
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(US law) A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
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(education, of a professorship or other academic job) Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
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Short for United States Attorney. [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, archaic) The office (or term of office) of an umpire
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