Crossword clues for attorney
attorney
- One with a JD
- Suspect's request
- Court VIP
- Bar tender?
- Suspect's right
- Legal representative
- Fictional Mason, for one
- Suit conductor
- Stevenson is one
- Right guard?
- Person practicing law
- Person on a case
- Person often kept on retainer
- Person often getting into arguments
- Person legally authorised to act for another
- One passing the bar
- One at the bar
- He has an LLD
- Guarantee of the Sixth Amendment
- (American) lawyer
- Court player
- Bartender?
- Any one of 25 U.S. presidents
- Firm part
- One getting into briefs?
- Mason, notably
- A professional person authorized to practice law
- Conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice
- Occupation of 57 Across
- Johnnie Cochran, e.g.
- Solicitor
- Court figure
- Bar man
- Legal expert
- Barrister
- Legal professional
- Lawyer visiting tournament not suitable for everyone
- Person appointed to act for another in legal or business matters
- US lawyer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Attorney \At*tor"ney\, v. t.
To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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 "one appointed to represent another's interests."\n
\nIn English law, a private attorney was one appointed to act for another in business or legal affairs (usually for pay); an attorney at law or public attorney was a qualified legal agent in the courts of Common Law who prepared the cases for a barrister, who pleaded them (the equivalent of a solicitor in Chancery). So much a term of contempt in England that it was abolished by the Judicature Act of 1873 and merged with solicitor.Johnson observed that "he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney." [Boswell]The double -t- is a mistaken 15c. attempt to restore a non-existent Latin original. Attorney general first recorded 1530s in sense of "legal officer of the state" (late 13c. in Anglo-French), from French, hence the odd plural (subject first, adjective second).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) A lawyer; one who advises or represents others in legal matters as a profession. (context UK 19th century and earlier English) One such who practised in the courts of the common law (cf solicitor, proctor). (context UK lang=en 20th century and later, rare, usually pejorative) A solicitor. 2 (lb en obsolete outside set phrases) An agent or representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf.
WordNet
n. a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice [syn: lawyer]
Wikipedia
Attorney may refer to:
- Lawyer, as a general synonym
- Attorney-at-law, an official title of lawyers in some jurisdictions
- Attorney-in-fact, a holder of a power of attorney who is (though not necessarily a lawyer) able to act on another's behalf in legal and financial contexts
- The Attorney, a 2013 South Korean film
- Certain plants in the genus Clusia
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.