attorney-generaln.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > legal representative or agent
procurera1325
attorney-general1597
procureur1604
trampler1608
attorney universal1637
man of business1779
businessman1798
mukhtar1801
1292 Britton vi. x. §2 Touz attournez generals purrount lever fins et cirographer. ( Nichols transl., All general attorneys may levy fines and make chirographs.)]
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 204 Call in the letters patents that he hath By his attourneies generall to sue His liuery.
1717 T. Blount Law Dict. (at cited word) Atturney General is he, who by general authority is appointed to manage all our affairs or Suits..Attorney Special or Particular is he that is imployed in one or more Causes particularly specified.
2. spec. Attorney-General, Attorney General: a legal officer of the state empowered to act in all cases in which the state is a party. In England, Isle of Man, many Commonwealth countries, and in the United States, (formerly also in Ireland), the title of the first ministerial law-officer of the government, also of his or her Majesty's attorney in the duchy of Lancaster and, historically, in the duchy of Cornwall and the county palatine of Durham (now also applied to the attorney to the Prince of Wales). Plural (better): Attorney-Generals.The designation began in England, where this officer was at first merely the king's attorney (see above 6), called from the reign of Edward IV, ‘the king's general attorney,’ to distinguish him from those appointed to act on special occasions, or in particular courts. The descriptive designation seems to have grown into a title during the 16th cent. The A.G. is now a member of the Ministry (but not of the Cabinet), and usually has a seat in the House of Commons.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers
the King's Attorney1414
attorneya1513
attorney-general1533
Solicitor-General1533
city attorney1664
state's attorney1779
AG1814
Official Solicitor1875
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII xvi. §2 The kinges generall attorney, and general Solicitour, which for the time is.
1585 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1809) I. 214 Then began John Popham Esq. her Majestys Attorney-general, as followeth.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 31 Sr John Dauis Knight, his Maiesties Attorny Generall for Ireland.
1708 London Gaz. No. 4482/3.
a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 18 His admission into the Conversation of Mr. Attorney-General Palmer..proved of great use to him..For Mr. Attorney..was a very great Book Lawyer.
1812 Examiner 25 May 334/1 Attorneys-General, Judges, and Hangmen.
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 24 Aug. 529/1 Attorney-Generals should be restricted.
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attorney-generalship n.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > state or public law officers > position of
law-officership1781
attorney-generalship1871
1871 Daily Tel. 6 Nov. Might have seen the Attorney-Generalship filled once more by the Member for Richmond.
1876 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 384 The nomination of Mr. O'Conor as a candidate for the attorney-generalship.
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