Legisperitus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib.
2, tit. 1.
LEGIT VEL NON? Im old English practice, this was the formal question propounded to the ordinary when a prisoner claimed the benefit of clergy,—does he read or not? If the ordinary found that the prisoner was entitled to clergy, his formal answer was, “ Legit ut clervicus,” he reads likea clerk.