Client
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A person who employs or retains an attorney or counsellor, to appear for him in courts, advise, assist, and defend him in legal proceedings, and to act for him in any legal business.
McCreary v. Hoopes, 25 Miss. 428; McFarland v. Crary, 6 Wend. (N. Y.) 297; Cross v. Riggins, 50 Mo. 335.