#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].


