Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #967.  Judge. —­ N. judge; justice, justiciar[obs3], justiciary[obs3];
chancellor; justice of assize, judge of assize; recorder, common sergeant; puisne judge, assistant judge, county court judge; conservator of the peace, justice of the peace; J.P.; court &c. (tribunal) 966; magistrate, police magistrate, beak*; his worship, his honor, his lordship.
     jury, twelve men in a box. 
     Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice; Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor;
Lord Chief Justice, Chief Baron; Mr. Justice, Associate Justice, Chief Justice; Baron, Baron of the Exchequer.
     jurat[Lat], assessor; arbiter, arbitrator; umpire; referee,
referendary[obs3]; revising barrister; domesman[obs3]; censor &c. (critic) 480; barmaster[obs3], ephor[obs3]; grand juror, grand juryman; juryman, talesman.
     archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta[obs3], mollah[obs3], ulema,
mufti, cadi[obs3], kadi[obs3]; Rhadamanthus[obs3].
     litigant &c. (accusation) 938. 
     V. adjudge &c. (determine) 480; try a case, try a prisoner. 
     Adj. judicial &c. 965. 
     Phr. “a Daniel come to judgment” [Merchant of Venice].

     #968.  Lawyer. —­ N. lawyer, attorney, legal counsel; counsel,
counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law; jurist, legist[obs3], civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult[Lat], legal adviser, advocate; barrister, barrister at law; King’s or Queen’s counsel; K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman[obs3], judge &c. 967.
     bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers;
officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader.
     solicitor, proctor; notary, notary public; scrivener, cursitor[obs3];
writer, writer to the signet; S.S.C.; limb of the law; pettifogger; vakil[obs3].
     legal beagle [coll.].
     [persons accessory to lawyers] legal secretary; legal assistant; law
student. 
     V. practice law, practice at the bar, practice within the bar; plead;
call to the bar, be called to the bar, be called within the bar; take silk; take to the law.
     give legal counsel, provide legal counsel. 
     Adj. learned in the law; at the bar; forensic; esquire, esquired. 
     Phr. banco regis[Lat].

     #969.  Lawsuit.—­ N. lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in
law; dispute &c. 713.
     citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment; accusation &c. 938;
presentment, true bill, indictment.
     apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment &c. (restraint) 751.
     writ, summons, subpoena, latitat[obs3], nisi prius[Lat]; venire,
venire facias
     pleadings[Lat]; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal[Fr]; bill of
right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter[obs3], surrejoinder[obs3].

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