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Barrister :: Barrister (n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney..

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..

Represent :: Represent (v. t.) To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress..

Pettifogger :: Pettifogger (n.) A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.

Compear :: Compear (v. i.) To appear in court personally or by attorney.

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

Attorney :: Attorney (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.

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..

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..

Fiscal :: Fiscal (n.) The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

Attorneyship :: Attorneyship (n.) The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.

Vakeel :: Vakeel (n.) A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador..

Proctor :: Proctor (v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.

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..

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..

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.

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..

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..

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..

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