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Advocatus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from advocare, q. v.] An advocate or pleader. Bract. fol.

372 b.

See Advocate. A patron, or defender; a person having the right to present to a church (jus advocationis;) an advowee, (q. v.) Glanv. lib.

6, c. 14.

Bract. fol.

240 b. Reg. Orig. 80.

One who is called or vouched to warranty; a vouchee. Spelman, voc.

Advocatus.

See Vouchee.

See Vouchee.