Counsel
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
An advocate, counsellor, or pleader.
3 Bl. Comm. 26; 1 Kent, Comm. 307.
One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court. See COUNSELLOR. Counsellors who are associated with those regularly retained in a cause, either for the purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its legal side, or arguing questions of law to the court, or preparing or conducting the case on its appearance before an appellate tribunal, are siid to be “of counsel.”
2. Knowledge.
A grand jury is sworn to keep secret “the commonwealth’s counsel, their fellows’, and their own.”
3.
Advice given by one person to another in regard to 4 proposed line of conduct, claim, or contention.