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Answer for the clue "Firm part ", 8 letters:
attorney

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Word definitions for attorney in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c. (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Old French atorné "(one) appointed," past participle of aturner "to decree, assign, appoint," from atorner (see attorn ). The legal Latin form attornare influenced the spelling in Anglo-French. The sense is of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, v. t. To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [Obs.] --Shak.

Usage examples of attorney.

This libel on our national oath, and this accusation of all our countrymen of being in the daily practice of solemnly asseverating the most enormous falsehood, I fear deserves the notice of a more active Attorney General than that here alluded to.

Posted in the side-scenes are the bankrupt and his solicitor, the attorney of the creditors, the assignees, the agent, and the judge-commissioner himself.

Fenellan eyed benevolently the worthy attorney, whose innermost imp burst out periodically, like a Dutch clocksentry, to trot on his own small grounds for thinking himself of the community of the man of the world.

Tyrolese seemed convinced, though reluctantly, and agreed to advance the necessary sum upon the bond and judgment of our adventurer, who, being disabled from transacting his own affairs in person, was obliged to intrust Ratchcali with his keys, papers, and power of attorney, under the check and inspection of his faithful Maurice and the solicitor, whose fidelity he bespoke with the promise of an ample recompense.

Me, then edited the footage to make Stecco, an attorney devoted to helping the poor, look like a spokesman for the brainless and wealthy.

Company Secretary making Alexander my Alternate Director, which will give him authority to act on my behalf in all business decisions at the brewery, not just my personal affairs, that are covered by the power of attorney.

The attorney waited on the commissary, and on the day after brought me a copy of the pleas.

Robins uncovered potentially exculpatory evidence attorneys would use in future bids to get Bembenek a new trial.

I learned that lesson long ago the hard way, when I was an upscale defense attorney with an infatuation for the civil litigator down the hall.

The malpractice plaintiff attorney was a young, aggressive fellow named Matthew Davidson from a firm in St.

These malpractice attorneys must have recruited Trent Harding to contaminate Marcaine ampules and place them in OR supplies.

Clement, who wished to employ him in Florence, tried by every means to free him, and gave him for his attorney one Messer Tommaso, of Prato, who afterwards became Datario.

So when Messer Tommaso, his attorney, appeared in court making his proposition to the agents of the Duke, they began to look one another in the face, and determined together that some sort of tomb should be made for the money that had already been advanced.

The last thing I need, after all this, is a mistrial because we lost the defense attorney.

Attorney Madigan will argue that this is a hung jury, that the judge should declare a mistrial and send the jurors home.