ABSP - Law: Professionals

Law: Professionals

abrogator	one who abrogates, abolishes authoritatively or formally.
accuser accusant	one who accuses.
aedile edile	in classical times, a magistrate in charge of games, markets or buildings.
alguacil alguazil	an inferior officer of justice in Spain.
amicus	a legal expert witness > AMICI.
apposer	an examiner; one whose business is to put questions.
arbiter	a person with power to decide a dispute, a judge.
archon	the chief magistrate in ancient Athens; a presiding officer.
archonship	the office of an ARCHON.
archontate	an ARCHON's term of office.
archontic	relating to an ARCHON, the chief magistrate in ancient Athens.
attorney	a person formally appointed to act for another in legal or business matters; (verb, Shakesp.) to perform by proxy.
attorneydom	the office of ATTORNEY.
attorneyism	the state of being an ATTORNEY.
avoyer	a chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
avvogadore	an official criminal prosecutor in Venice.
bailli	a magistrate > BAILLIS.
barrister	a person who is qualified to plead at the bar in a lawcourt.
bencher	a senior member of an inn of court; a person who sits on a bench in some official capacity.
benchership	the office of BENCHER.
birlieman	a BYRLAW-MAN, an arbiter, oddsman or umpire in matters of local law.
brehon	(Irish) a judge or magistrate in ancient Ireland. [Irish breitheamh].
briefless	having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
cadi kadi qadi	a civil judge in a Muslim country. [Arabic qadi, a judge].
canonist	a professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
canonistic	of or pertaining to a CANONIST.
centumvir	in Rome, one of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits > CENTUMVIRI.
chirographer	an official of the Court of Common Pleas.
circuiteer	a judge who goes on a circuit.
cocounsel	a joint counsel; (verb) to counsel jointly > COCOUNSELS, COCOUNSELING or COCOUNSELLING, COCOUNSELED or COCOUNSELLED.
codefendant	a joint defendant.
comaker	one who assumes responsibility for a loan on another's defaulting.
comitia	a public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws > COMITIAS.
coroner	an officer who investigates questionable deaths.
coronership	the office of CORONER.
corregidor	the chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
crowner	a coroner.
cursitor	a clerk or officer in the Court of Chancery, who made out writs de cursu.
cursitory	relating to a CURSITOR, a clerk or officer in the Court of Chancery, who made out writs de cursu.
daysman	an umpire or arbiter; a mediator.
decemvir	one of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome > DECEMVIRS or DECEMVIRI.
decemviral	pertaining to the DECEMVIRS in Rome.
decemvirate	the office of DECEMVIR.
deemster	a judge on the Isle of Man.
dempster doomster	formerly in Scotland, an officer who repeated the sentence after the judge > DEMPSTERS.
dicast dikast	(Greek) one of the 6000 Athenians chosen annually to act as judges.
dicastic	relating to the old Athenian DICAST system of choosing jurors.
doomsman	a judge; an umpire.
doomster	see DEMPSTER.
drostdy	the house and office of a LANDDROST > DROSTDYS or DROSTDIES.
ealdorman	a chief magistrate in Anglo-Saxon England > EALDORMEN.
edile	see AEDILE.
ephor	a magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta > EPHORS or EPHORI. [Gk. ephoros, overseer].
ephoral	pertaining to an EPHOR, one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta.
ephoralty	the office of an EPHOR, or the body of ephors.
ephorate	the office of EPHOR, one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta.
escribano	a notary > ESCRIBANOS.
filacer filazer	formerly, an officer who filed writs.
gownman gownsman	one whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer.
greffier	in the Channel Isles, a registrar, a notary.
heliast	an Athenian judge.
indagator	a searcher; an explorer; an investigator.
judge	a person appointed to hear and settle causes, and to try accused persons; (verb) to decide on critically.
judger	one who judges.
judgeship	the office of a judge.
judicator	a person who judges.
judiciary	a body of judges or people having judicial power > JUDICIARILY.
jurisconsult	someone who is consulted on the law; a lawyer who gives opinions on cases put to him or her.
jurist	one who is knowledgeable about the law.
juristic juristical	of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence.
jurisprudent	a person who is knowledgeable in JURISPRUDENCE.
justicer	a judge, magistrate.
justiceship	the office or dignity of a justice.
justiciar justiciary	an old name for the judges of the higher English courts.
kadi	see CADI.
landamman landammann	a chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
landdros landdrost	in South Africa, a district magistrate or sheriff.
lawgiver	one who institutes a legal system.
lawmaker	a legislator.
lawmonger	a trivially contentious lawyer.
lawyer	a member of the legal profession > LAWYERLY; (verb) to work as a member of the legal profession.
lawyerlike	like a lawyer.
lawyerly	like, or becoming, a LAWYER; as, lawyerlike sagacity.
legalist	someone inclined to legalism.
legalizer	one who legalizes.
legislator	one that makes laws, especially for a political unit.
legist	a person knowledgeable about the law.
lictor	an ancient Roman magistrate's attendant.
lictorian	relating to a LICTOR.
macer	a mace bearer; an officer of a court.
magistracy	the office or dignity of a magistrate.
magistrate	an official entrusted with administration of the laws.
magnifico	the chief magistrate at Venice > MAGNIFICOS or MAGNIFICOES.
mooktar mukhtar	an Indian lawyer; a Turkish local government official.
mooter	a disputer of a mooted case.
mootman	one who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
mukhtar	see MOOKTAR.
nomarch	the chief magistrate of a NOME or NOMARCHY.
nomographer	a writer of laws.
nomologist	a student of NOMOLOGY, the science of law.
nomothete	a lawgiver.
nonlawyer	one who is not a lawyer.
notarial	of or pertaining to a NOTARY > NOTARIALLY.
notary	an official authorized to certify deeds, contracts, copies of documents, affidavits, etc.
oddsman	an arbiter in matters of local law.paralegal a person who assists a professional lawyer.
peat	a lawyer allegedly under the patronage of a particular judge.
peatship	the state of being a PEAT.
penologist	one versed in, or a student of, PENOLOGY.
pettifog	to act like a PETTIFOGGER.
pettifogger	a petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer.
pleader	one who pleads; an advocate.
podesta	(Ital.) one of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.
praetor pretor	a magistrate of ancient Rome.
praetorial	relating to a PRAETOR.
praetorian pretorian	a former PRAETOR or man of equivalent rank.
prefect	a Roman magistrate or administrator.
prefectship	the office of PREFECT.
prefecture	the office, position, or jurisdiction of a PREFECT; also, his official residence.
pretor	see PRAETOR.
pretorian	see PRAETORIAN.
pretorship	the office of PRETOR, a magistrate of ancient Rome.
procurator	an agent in a law court.
propraetor propretor	a magistrate who, having been PRETOR at home, was appointed to the government of a province.
prosecutor	a person who institutes an official prosecution before a court.
prosecutrix	a female PROSECUTOR > PROSECUTRICES or PROSECUTRIXES.
prothonotary protonotary	a principle law clerk in certain courts of law.
puisne	puny; surviving as a term applied to certain junior judges; (noun) a puisne judge.
qadi	see CADI.
quaestor questor	an ancient Roman magistrate.
questorial	relating to a QUESTOR.
questorship	the office of QUESTOR.
rabbi	a Jewish expounder or doctor of the law > RABBIS or RABBIES.
rabbin	a RABBI.
rabbinate	the office of a RABBI.
rabbinic rabbinical	of or pertaining to the RABBINS.
reeve	a chief magistrate of a district.
sentencer	one who sentences.
serjeant	a barrister of highest rank.
shyster	an unscupulous or disreputable lawyer.
solicitor	a person who is legally qualified to act for another in a court of law.
solon	a wise and skillful lawgiver > SOLONS. [From Solon, a celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 BC].
syndic	a magistrate; a member of committee.
syndicship	the office of SYNDIC, a magistrate; a member of committee.
templar	a student of lawyer, living or with chambers, in the Temple, London.
vakeel vakil	a native lawyer in India.

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