Cliens
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Lat. In the Roman law. A client or dependent. One who depended upon another as his patron or protector, adviser or defender, in suits at law and other difflculties; and was bound, in return, to pay him all respect and honor, and to serve him with his life and fortune inany extremity.
Dionys. ii, 10; Adams, Rom. Ant. 83.