Counsel

The counsellors who are associated in the management of a particular cause, or who act as legal advisers in reference to any matter requiring legal knowledge and judgment. The term is used both as a singular and plural noun, to denote one or more, though it is perhaps more common, when speaking of one of several counsellors concerned in the management of a case in court, to say that he is "of counsel." Knowledge. A grand jury is sworn to keep secret "the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows', and their own."

The counsellors who are associated in the management of a particular cause, or who act as legal advisers in reference to any matter requiring Legal knowledge and Judgment. The term is used both as a singular and plural noun, to denote one or more. It is usual to say of one concerned in a case that he is "of counsel." Originally there was no distinction between council and counsel; both were consilium. Ubort, Legisl. Meth. 5. Knowledge. A grand jury is sworn to keep secret "the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows', and their own."

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In practice. An advocate, counsellor or pleader. 3 Bl. Comm. 26; 1 Kent, Comm. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court. See Counsellor. Counsellors who are associated with those regularly retained in a cause, either for the purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its legal side, or arguing questions of law to the court, or preparing or conducting the case on its appearance before an appellate tribunal, are said to be "of counsel."
2. Knowledge. A grand jury is sworn to keep secret "the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows', and their own."
3. Advice given by one person to another in regard to a proposed line of conduct, claim, or contention. State v. Russell, 83 Wis. 330, 53 N. W. 441; Ann. Codes & St. Or. 1901, § 1049. The words "counsel" and "advise" may be, and frequently are, used in criminal law to describe the offense of a person who, not actually doing the felonious act, by his will contributed to it or procured it to be done. True v. Com., 90 Ky. 651, 14 S. W. 684; Omer v. Co.m., 95 Ky. 353, 25 S. W. 594.

— Junior counsel. The younger of the counsel employed on the same side of a case, or the one lower in standing or rank, or who is intrusted with the less important parts of the preparation or trini of the cause.

An advocate; a counsellor; a counsellor who acts as advisor in a particular matter, or assists in the management of a particular cause.

In practice. An advocate, counsellor, or pleader. 3 Bl. Comm. 26; 1 Kent, Comm. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court. See COUNSELLOR. Counsellors who are associated with those regularly retained in a cause, either for the purpose of advising as to the points of law involved, or preparing the case on its legal side, or arguing questions of law to the court, or preparing or conducting the case on its appearance before an appellate tribunal, are siid to be “of counsel.” 2. Knowledge. A grand jury is sworn to keep secret “the commonwealth’s counsel, their fellows’, and their own.” 3. Advice given by one person to another in regard to 4 proposed line of conduct, claim, or contention.

[L. Fr. conseil, conseill, councel.] In practice. An advocate, counsellor or pleader. 3 £1. Com. 26. 1 Kent's Com. 307. One who assists his client with advice, and pleads for him in open court. See Advocate, Counsellor, Pleader. This word has no plural, and is used to denote either one or more counsel. It is by some supposed to be an abbreviation of counsellor, but rather seems to be derived from the Norman Fr. conseil, which occurs as a distinct word, at an early period, in the sense of pleader. Assizes de Jerusalem, ch. ix. Id. ch. xzvii. Counsel is not used as a title of office, like barrister and serjeant in England, and counsellor in the United States, but as a general professional designation; and is particularly applied to a client's professional adviser or advocate (one or more) in a particular matter or suit, e. g. in the expressions a party's counsel, and the counsel in a cause; in which the use of the term counsellor would in strictness be improper. To a certain extent, however, the terms are synonymous. See Counsellor. " The counsellor should give his counsel to him with [for] whom he is of counseL" 5 Co. 20. See Of 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.