Advocate

QUEEN'S (or KING'S). See "Queen's Advocate." ADVOCATI (Lat.) In Roman law. Patrons; pleaders; speakers. Anciently, any one who lent his aid to a friend, and who was supposed to be able in any way to influence a judge, was called advocatus. Causidicus denoted a speaker or pleader merely; advocatus resembled more nearly a counsellor; or, still more exactly, causidicus must be rendered "barrister," and advocatus "attorney," though the duties of an advocatus were much more extended than those of a modern attorney. Du Cange; Calv. Lex. A witness.