Definition of attorney

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Attorney (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

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Attorney :: Attorney (v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy.
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..
Proctor :: Proctor (n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity..
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..
Essoiner :: Essoiner (n.) An attorney who sufficiently excuses the absence of another.
Attorneyism :: Attorneyism (n.) The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.
Vakeel :: Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador..
Kahani :: Kahani (n.) A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant..
Pettifogger :: Pettifogger (n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
Forejudge :: Forejudge (v. t.) To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court..
Lawyer :: Lawyer (n.) One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates..
Constituent :: Constituent (n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Attorney-general :: Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required..
Attorneys :: Attorneys (pl. ) of Attorne.
Doer :: Doer (v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
Attorney :: Attorney (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
Attorney :: Attorney (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
Present :: Present (a.) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, Know all men by these presents, that is, by the writing itself, per has literas praesentes; -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular..
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..
Paid :: Paid (imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney..
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