Crossword clues for attorneys
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of attorney English)
Usage examples of "attorneys".
From June until well into September, the only records the defense attorneys received were those that had been generatedbefore the arrests, and the release of even these was slow.
The prosecutor’s office had just begun to provide documents from the police investigation to the defense attorneys, through the legal process known as discovery.
He stated he did not understand why the attorneys had not already moved him, as it was inevitable that he would need to be transferred for an evaluation.
It asked Burnett to explain how—and how much—the court-appointed defense attorneys were to be paid.
Lax and Damien’s attorneys warned him that his demeanor could harm his defense.
One of the defense attorneys’ earliest motions—and one that would be often repeated—urged Judge Burnett to order Fogleman or the police to help them clarify what they called “the discovery mess.
At one of the hearings, attorneys attempted to suppress evidence taken in the nighttime search—a search that they argued had been both unnecessary and illegal.
At the time, the defense attorneys did not even have a clear idea about how the police had reacted to the knife’s appearance.
The knife’s existence was not reported to the defense attorneys until almost a full month later—after Jessie’s trial had already started.
That’s when Fogleman had informed the defense attorneys about the knife’s existence—and that the blood on it was consistent with that of Christopher Byers.
And now Damien’s attorneys wanted Judge Burnett to order the HBO filmmakers to surrender footage they’d heard had been shot of John Mark Byers.
He later complained that Judge Burnett had issued the order for Jessie to be moved ex parte, after consulting only with the prosecutors, while Jessie’s attorneys had been excluded.
When the prosecutors left the room, Jessie happily told his attorneys that the deputy who’d driven him to Rector had promised to bring Jessie’s girlfriend to see him in the local jail.
Lax urged Damien’s and Jason’s attorneys to press Hutcheson about her past and about her own inconsistencies, especially with regard to her reports of the esbat.
Fogleman provided the defense attorneys with a copy of Detective Ridge’s responses, but they showed that Ridge had had little to offer Griffis beyond the wild statements of Aaron Hutcheson.