LAWYER

A person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel, or solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other ju- dicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or whose business it is to give legal ad- vice in relation to any cause or matter whatever. Act of July 13, 1866, § 9, (14 St. at Large, 121.) LAY, . To state or allege in pleading. LAY, adj. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in acclesiastical orders. Also non-professional.

A person learned in the law} as an attorney, counsel, or solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record or other judicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the states, or whose business it is to give legal advice in relation to any cause . or matter whatever. Act of July 13, 1866, § 9, (14 St. at Large, 121.) LAY, n. <A share of the profits of a fishing or whaling voyage, allotted to the officers and seamen, in the nature of wages. Coffin v. Jenkins, 5 Fed. Cas. 1190; Thomas v. Osborn, 19 How. 33, 15 L. Ed. 534. LAY, v. To state or allege in pleading. —Lay damages. ‘To state at the conclusion of the declaration the amount of damages which the plaintiff claims—Lay out. This term has come to be used technically in highway laws as embracing al] the series of acts necessary to the complete establishment of a highway. Laying the venue. Stating in the margin of a declaration the county in which the plaintiff Bropcees that the trial of the action shall take place. LAY, adj. Relating to persons or things not clerical or ecclesiastical; a person not in ecclesiastical orders. Also non-professional, —Lay corporation. See CORPORATION.— Lay days. In the law of shipping. Days allowed in charter-parties for loading and unloading the cargo. 3 Kent, Comm. 202, 203.— Lay fee. A fee held by ordinary feudal tenure, ax distinguished from the ecclesiastical tenure of frankalmotgn, by which an ecclesiastical corporation held of the donor. The tenure Cone v. Hartford, 28 Conn. 375.— LE ROI " of frankalmoign is reserved by St. 12 Car. II.. which abolished military tenures. 2 Bl. Comm. 101.Lay impropriator. In English ecclesiastical law. <A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72.—Lay investiture. In ecclesiastical law. The ceremony of putting a bishop in ssion of the temporalities of his dioces.—Lay judge. A judge who is not learned in the law, ¢. e., ‘not a lawyer; formerly employed in some of the States as assessors or assistants to the presiding judges in the nisi prius courts or courts of first instance—Lay people. Jurymen.—Layman. One of the people, and not one of the clergy; one who is not of the legal profession ; one who is not of a particular profession.

A popular term for a person whose business it is to know and to practice law: give advice, prepare papers, conduct proceedings, etc. The term does not discriminate between the functions of an advocate, attorney, barrister, counsellor, conveyance, proctor, and solicitor. Any person who, for fee or reward, prosecutes or defends causes in courts of record, or other judicial tribunals of the United States, or of any of the States, or whose business is to give legal advice in relation to any cause or matter whatever.2 See ATTORNEY.

One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates. The black-necked stilt. See Stilt. The bowfin (Amia calva). The burbot (Lota maculosa).

A professional person with a graduate law degree that qualifies for legal work (such as Juris Doctor) | A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice. | A legal layman who argues points of law. | The burbot. | The stem of a bramble. | Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. | A relative of the raspberry found in Australia and New Zealand, Rubus australis | Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. | Various species of Calamus, including Calamus australis, Calamus muelleri, Calamus obstruens, Calamus vitiensis, Calamus warburgii, and Calamus moti. | Any of various plants that have hooked thorns. | A woody climbing rainforest vine, Flagellaria indica.

To practice law. | To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer. | To make legalistic arguments. | To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.

A male given name.