common lawyern.
/ˌkɒmən ˈlɔɪə/, /ˌkɒmən ˈlɔːjə/, U.S. /ˌkɑmən ˈlɔɪər/, /ˌkɑmən ˈlɔjər/, /ˌkɑmən ˈlɑjər/ A lawyer specializing in common law.
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society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > legal knowledge or skill > one learned in the law > in specific branches or kinds of law
civiliana1425
civilistc1550
common lawyer1552
Justinianist1588
tenurist1588
commoner1591
feudist1607
criminalista1631
criminista1631
Romanist1647
pundit1661
antecessor1753
constitutionalist1766
civil1776
publicist1795
codist1831
theologo-jurista1843
internationalist1855
Sabinian1862
Pandectist1895
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Sokeman, I take that sokemen whome the common lawers call tenauntes in auncient demesne bene Coloni.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 65 Denied indeed by our Commons Lawyers, but stickled for by some Canonists.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 292 Chief Justice Hales, a profound common Lawyer, and both Devotionair and Moralist.
1885 Law Times 4 July 169/1 There is a large preponderance of creations of common lawyers [as Q.C.s].
1991 Industr. Law Jrnl. 20 264 Common lawyers must face up to the implications of a clear, entrenched constitutional right which they must respect, even in the face of an inconsistent Act of Parliament.
2016 Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. 28 The Strasbourg Court has played an estimable part in the spread of English common law values across the continent of Europe, just as Winston Churchill and the English common lawyers who drafted the European Convention on Human Rights intended.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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