legist

"He'd have been a good legist or did they call them lawyers?"

The legist placed his fingers together and studied them.

"I am pleased that a legist of your learning and authority should have pronounced such an opinion.

"There was the legist who spoke," said Rodvard.

A Legist, from the Latin lex 'law', is any expert or student of law.

He glanced at one and the other; the Zigraner gave a somewhat unwilling nod, the third legist had only an absent expression.

This was the end of the poetic reputation of Chapelain, "the legist of Parnassus."

"It's legal all right, Cherry," the legist replied, "since it is not a corporal punishment, per se, which is illegal under the terms of the charter."

They moved to places in the premier row of chairs; legist badges began drifting toward them as straws on a stream will be drawn by a log.

Matfre Ermengau(d) (died 1322) was a Franciscan friar, legist, and troubadour from Béziers.

The legist on his right, the Zigraner, frowned; he on the left leaned his chin on his hand and his elbow on the table.

"Ve said ve was a 'mainstream Anthrocosmo legist,' and-" Mosala groaned softly, closed her eyes, and stopped dead.

Part of the legacy of the Gregorian Reform was the new figure of the Papal Legist, exemplified a century later by Pope Innocent III.

Considerable surprise and relief permeated Landing the next morning when Cabot Francis Carter, the colony's senior legist, broadcast the announcement that a mass meeting was scheduled for the following evening.

Ahmed Jawdat Pasha (22 March 1822 - 25 May 1895) was a famous Ottoman Turkish statesman, historian, sociologist, and legist, from Turks in Bulgaria.

The phrase cuius regio, eius religio was coined in 1582 by the legist Joachim Stephani (1544-1623) of the University of Greifswald.

In 1215, the Magna Carta had placed English kingship firmly under the law, and a generation later, the legist Bracton had said that 'the king is under God and under the law'.

From the twelfth century, when a fresh impulse was given to legal researches, the terms legist and decretist - the latter applied, in the narrower sense, to the interpreter of ecclesiastical canon law and commentator on the canonical texts-have been carefully distinguished.