Lawyer
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
This vernacular term for a professional person whose business it is to conduct proceedings, or draught papers, by which rights may be secured or wrongs redressed, is but little used in technical jurisprudence, on account of its indefiniteness. It makes no discrimination between the functions of the advocate, barrister, counsellor, attorney, solicitor, proctor, conveyancer, &c.; as to which, see the several titles. Lawyer defined as any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record, or other judicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or whose business it is to give legal advice in relation to any cause or matter whatever.
Act of July 13, 1866, § 9, 14 Stat, at L. 121.