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Advocate

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

See Judge-Advocate. An assistant; an associate in conducting a lawsuit. A person who makes a profession of presenting cases orally. "Of advocates, or (as we more generally call them) counsel, there are two species or degrees: barristers and sergeants." In the United States no distinction is made between an advocate and an attorney, q. v.