Counsel

Advice given to another as to what he ought to do or not to do. ‘Tocounsel another to do an unlawful act, is to become accessary to it, if it be a felony, or principal, if it be treason, or a misoffices, is an officer in the supreme court of the United States, and m some other courts, who is employed by a party in a cause, to conduct the same on its trial on his behalf. He differs from an attorney at law, (q. v.) In the supreme court of the United States the two degrees of attorney and counsel are kept separate and no persom is permitted to practise both. It is the duty of the counsel to draft or review and correct the special pleadings, to manage the cause on trial, and, during the whole course of the suit, to apply established principles of law to the exigencies of the case.

1 Kent, Com. 307.

In all the other courts of the United States, as well as in the courts of Pennsylvania, the same person performs the duty of counsellor and attorney at law.