Definition of attorney

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Attorney (n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

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Proctor :: Proctor (v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
Admit :: Admit (v. t.) To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail..
Kahani :: Kahani (n.) A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant..
Attorneys :: Attorneys (pl. ) of Attorne.
Compear :: Compear (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.
Relator :: Relator (n.) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed..
Attorneyism :: Attorneyism (n.) The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..
Constituent :: Constituent (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Attorney :: Attorney (v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
Pettifogger :: Pettifogger (n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
Attorney :: Attorney (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..
Essoiner :: Essoiner (n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
Attorney :: Attorney (n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent.
Nolle Prosequi :: Nolle prosequi () Will not prosecute; -- an entry on the record, denoting that a plaintiff discontinues his suit, or the attorney for the public a prosecution; either wholly, or as to some count, or as to some of several defendants..
Doer :: Doer (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Solicitor-general :: Solicitor-general (n.) The second law officer in the government of Great Britain; also, a similar officer under the United States government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the States..
Fiscal :: Fiscal (n.) The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
Disbar :: Disbar (v. t.) To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such..
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