The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, n.; pl. Attorneys. [OE. aturneye, OF. atorn['e], p. p. of atorner: cf. LL. atturnatus, attornatus, fr. attornare. See Attorn.]
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A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.]
And will have no attorney but myself.
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(Law)
One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.
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A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law.
Note: An attorney is either public or private. A private attorney, or an attorney in fact, is a person appointed by another, by a letter or power of attorney, to transact any business for him out of court; but in a more extended sense, this class includes any agent employed in any business, or to do any act in pais, for another. A public attorney, or attorney at law, is a practitioner in a court of law, legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court, on the retainer of clients.
--Bouvier. -- The attorney at law answers to the procurator of the civilians, to the solicitor in chancery, and to the proctor in the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, and all of these are comprehended under the more general term lawyer. In Great Britain and in some states of the United States, attorneys are distinguished from counselors in that the business of the former is to carry on the practical and formal parts of the suit. In many states of the United States however, no such distinction exists. In England, since 1873, attorneys at law are by statute called solicitors.A power, letter, or warrant, of attorney, a written authority from one person empowering another to transact business for him.
Usage examples of "a power".
In the miracle of which Tirzah and his mother were the witnesses even more nearly than himself, he saw and set apart and dwelt upon a power ample enough to raise and support a Jewish crown over the wrecks of the Italian, and more than ample to remodel society, and convert mankind into one purified happy family.
They built a power plant on the fifth planet to operate a massive tractor beam.
I am accidentally possessed of a power over one of the keepers here, and in virtue of it I stand before you.
Faintly he could feel a power field develop, the generator subaudible.
He was one of those rare, little-understood men who rule by a power so gentle that it passes as a lovable weakness.
On the other hand they each were carrying several thousand rounds of ammunition that used antimatter as a power source so there had to be something they could do.
A logarithm is a name for a power to which you raise a given number, called the base, to get the number whose logarithm it is.
But for the past three days Free America had not been on the airsolar static maybe, or perhaps just a power failure.