ATTORNEY AT LAW
\ɐtˈɜːni at lˈɔː], \ɐtˈɜːni at lˈɔː], \ɐ_t_ˈɜː_n_i_ a_t l_ˈɔː]\
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An advocate, counsel, official agent employed in preparing, managing, and trying cases in the courts. An officer in a court of justice, who is employed by a party in a cause to manage the same lor him. In English law. An attorney at law was a public officer belonging to the superior courts of common law at Westminster, who conducted legal proceedings on behalf of others, called his clients, by whom he was retained; he answered to the solicitor in the courts of chancery, and the proctor of the admiralty, ecclesiastical, probate, and divorce courts. An attorney was almost invariably also a solicitor. It is now provided by the judicature act, 1873,
By Henry Campbell Black
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