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单词 attorney in fact
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attorney in fact
a. Law. A person legally appointed or empowered to act as representative for another in some or all of the latter's business or legal affairs, typically because of absence, death, or an inability to perform certain actions without assistance. Sometimes more fully attorney in fact or private attorney. Cf. letter of attorney n., power of attorney n., warrant of attorney n.Formerly (in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago): spec. a person appointed to manage the estate of another who lives abroad (see quots. 1835 and 1916).In extended use in quot. 1642.
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1380 Charter in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Atto(u)rnay n.1 Qvat tyme at he will aske me or his actornes in his name that I sall gif hym my chartyr.
1406 Rolls of Parl.: Henry IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Mar. 1406 Pleas §8. m. 2 We..assigned..our generals and specials attournes and deputes, to..trete..wythe..the king of Scotland.
1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 344 Paid to John Smythe of Yipswych, his attorney in the kervelle of the marchaundyse, viij.s. iiij.d.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 52 a A fem may be an Attorney to deliuer seisin to her husband.
?1631 C. More Life & Death Sir T. Moore vii. 225 A priuate Atturney by his owne practise wil leaue his childe fiue hundred pound land of inheritance.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 124 None may appear in Gods service by an Atturney.
1713 Mercator No. 94. (single sheet) Learn to Blush now you are a private Attorney, whatever you did when you were a Bailiff of the Borough.
1801 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 2 June No. 4188..transferred by Thomas Simmons, as Attorney in Fact for John Barco, to Robert Weakley.
1835 B. M. Senior Jamaica ix. 103 Although some resident proprietors are excellent attornies,..what is called a ‘large attorney’..holding several properties..is the most likely person to make a sure return.
1916 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 27 Jan. 17/3 Her husband was employed there when the late Hon. L.C. Shirley was attorney for the property.
1973 Spokane (Washington) Daily Chron. 22 Dec. 5/4 He signed an affidavit of indigence, which enabled him to receive legal counsel at public expense, because the amount of bills he has made it impossible for him to hire a private attorney.
1998 Financial Times 14 Jan. 24/7 Farmers acts as a so-called ‘attorney-in-fact’ for a collection of co-operative insurance pools.
2016 G. Dal Pont in D. Busch et al. Agency Law in Commerc. Pract. xii. 239 The level of trust a donor places in an attorney likely exceeds that in most (other) agencies.
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