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Definition of Counselor-at-law

1. Noun. A lawyer who pleads cases in court.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Counselor-at-law

Literary usage of Counselor-at-law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Attorneys at Law by Edward Mark Thornton, Hiram Thomas (1914)
"Rule 1 of the general rules of practice provides: "An applicant for admission to practice a« an attorney and counselor at law on motion, ..."

2. American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1897)
"... was engaged as counselor-at-law forty Charles Spear, being chaplain, appointed by Presi- years. Catherine was the oldest of seven children dent Lincoln, ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"That contract is in substance this: A third person, not an attorney and counselor at law, enters into an agreement with an attorney and counselor at law ..."

4. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State)., John Tracy Fitzpatrick (1918)
"It shall be unlawful for any natural person to practice or appear as an attorney-at-law or as attorney and counselor-at-law for another in a court of record ..."

5. Proceedings in the Senate on the Investigation of the Charges Preferred by Horace G. Prindle, New York (State). Legislature Senate (1874)
"... W. Ray (he being then and there a clerk of said surrogate as aforesaid) to practice as an attorney and counselor at law before him, the said surrogate, ..."

6. California Unreported Cases: Being Those Decisions Determined in the Supreme by California Supreme Court, Peter V. Ross, California District Courts of Appeal (1913)
"... It is our duty to grant a license to each of said persons entitling him to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in all courts of this state, ..."

7. Michigan Law Journal by University of Michigan Dept. of Law (1898)
"No person shall be entitled to practice as an attorney and counselor at law and solicitor and counselor in chancery in this State until he shall be licensed ..."

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