Definition of Client

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Client
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The patron or employer of an attorney or solicitor.

  • Client
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    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.