Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer of the law; one vested with legal authority in respect to the administration of justice.
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Examples
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Seven have no portion in the world to come: -- A notary; a schoolmaster, the best of physicians, a judge who dispenses justice in his own native town, a wizard, a congregational reader (or law-officer), and a butcher.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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Constantine got ready for it, strongly recommending the establishment of civil courts, the appointment of an administrator and law-officer and the reinforcing of the Police so that they could be scattered up and down the new mining areas as required.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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The arraignment and preparatory routine of the trial gave time for the court to subside into order; and the address of the principal law-officer for the prosecution, though exciting the deepest anxiety, was listened to in the most respectful silence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Whether Punch's friend, the Attorney General, has had the epistle handed over to him, and contemplates immediate proceedings against "C. H.," the traitorous writer, Punch knows not; but after this information, the distinguished law-officer cannot plead ignorance of the evil, as an apology for future supineness.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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Archibald Campbell of Kilmhor, invested with authority as law-officer of the Crown, bearing in my hand the power of life and death, fire and the sword, backed up by the visible authority of armed men, and yet I am powerless before the dreams of an old woman and a half-grown lad -- soldiers and horses and the gallows and yellow gold are less than the wind blowing in their faces.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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There were seven judges, he who presided being a law-officer, and the other six captains of different grades, chosen mostly from among the survivors of those troops whom the Northmen had defeated on the night of the battle in the palace gardens.
The Wanderer's Necklace Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Muhammadan law-officer, of Ludhiana, in the Panjab.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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Allow me to read you the abstract of a conversation between an English official and a native law-officer as reported by Colonel Sleeman.
India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861
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The Mahommedan law-officer before whom the case was tried declared, that he could not, according to law, admit as valid the evidence of the wife and two sons of the murdered
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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(law-officer) had made a great uproar against the comedy of the
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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