Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An attorney; a counsel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lawyer who pleads cases in court
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Examples
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But as a dramatic prelude to the writing of Goethe's breakthrough work, "The Sorrows of Young Werther," the film follows the facts: While living in the smallish burg of Wetzlar, Goethe was indeed involved with Charlotte Buff (played by the ravishing Miriam Stein); her fiancé was Goethe's fellow counselor-at-law, Albert Kestner (the ubiquitous Moritz Bleibtreu); their mutual friend, Wilhelm Jerusalem (Volker Bruch) did in fact kill himself for love.
Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction John Anderson 2011
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Theoretically, a man could become a counselor-at-law in England without reading “a single page of any law book.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Theoretically, a man could become a counselor-at-law in England without reading “a single page of any law book.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Theoretically, a man could become a counselor-at-law in England without reading “a single page of any law book.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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I could scarcely compose myself, and must have betrayed indignation in my mien to the stranger, who was a counselor-at-law in the neighborhood, a man of engaging aspect and polite address.
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Not then the able diplomat and counselor-at-law, but a beardless youth, teaching his first school in an adjacent school district in the same county as Smyrna.
Unwritten History 1919
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No person shall be permitted to practice as an attorney or counselor-at-law, or to commence, conduct, or defend any action, suit, or plaint, in which he is not a party concerned, in any court of record within this State, either by using or subscribing his own name or the name of any other person without having previously obtained a license for that purpose from some two of the Justices of the
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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The claim of the plaintiff, who is a married woman, to be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law, is based upon the supposed right of every person, man or woman, to engage in any lawful employment for a livelihood.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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State, and possessing the necessary qualifications, is entitled by the Constitution of the United States to be admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the courts of the
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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Our statute provides that no person shall be permitted to practice as an attorney or counselor-at-law, without having previously obtained a license for that purpose from two of the justices of the Supreme Court.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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