attorneyship

Historically, “general” refers not to rank or command but to the breadth of attorneyship.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Alberto Gonzales Top 10: 2007

The attorneyship (ph) office is working, both the federal one and the local one, they're working on the only information we have at hand.

CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2006 2006

I remember my father always felt that one of his greatest victories in politics was winning the county attorneyship, by the county commissioners — they selected the county attorney.

Oral History Interview with Strom Thurmond, July 1978. Interview A-0334. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1978

If he is an attorney, does he take an attorneyship for himself?

Oral History Interview with Moon Landrieu, January 10-11, 1974. Interview A-0089. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

Leonard Calvert, as Lord Baltimore's attorney, had possessed a vote in the body; since Calvert had told her to take all and pay all, he had granted her all powers he had ever possessed; she therefore had succeeded him as Lord Baltimore's attorney and was possessed of the attorneyship until Baltimore saw fit to appoint another; hence, as the attorney, she was entitled to a seat and a voice in the Assembly.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

There were twenty-four estates under the same attorneyship with the Belle, and they were all in the same prosperous condition.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Hamlet's speech and the Forty-sixth Sonnet cannot, therefore, be accepted as evidence of his attorneyship, except in so far as they and like passages may be regarded as giving some support to the opinion that Shakespeare was but one of many in his time who abandoned law for letters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

The commodore's offer of the attorneyship for the Harlem Railroad, which was his first venture in railroading, was far less than the salary as minister.

My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

After some years of private practice Commodore Vanderbilt sent for me and offered the attorneyship for the New York and Harlem Railroad.

My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

But Penny did not appear, and the afternoon passed draggingly for the candidate for the district attorneyship.

The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920