Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writer on law; one who writes law-books.
  • noun A copier or engrosser of legal papers.

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Examples

  • In this view God is the law-writer, the principle-creator, the watchmaker.

    Skye Jethani: Has The Bible Become An Idol? Skye Jethani 2011

  • In this view God is the law-writer, the principle-creator, the watchmaker.

    Skye Jethani: Has The Bible Become An Idol? Skye Jethani 2011

  • There was not a single law-writer that had touched upon the existence of such

    Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip

  • Pickering protested against this as a barbarism, and argued that no self-respecting law-writer would employ it, but all the same it was firmly entrenched in the common speech and it has remained there to this day.

    Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921

  • To-day I exist as a law-writer, to-day I am old, and with my vanished youth hope has vanished too.

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • I sat for awhile in the darkness, listening to the scratching of the pen of my neighbour, the old law-writer, and the sense of despair that its sound always communicated to me encompassed me about this evening with heavier weight than usual.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • In the room next to me lived a law-writer and his wife.

    Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893

  • But as for him employing a girl as a law-writer, what would the profession say to that?

    Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867

  • Cowper, two attorneys, and a law-writer -- were placed in the dock on the charge of murdering Sarah Stout.

    A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

  • The counsel quoted the old French law, and a French law-writer of 1700,

    Canada and the States 1860

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