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Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser. One of his functions is to review Court-martial proceedings. All general military courts-martial are attended by a judge advocate acting by deputation, either special or general, under the hand and seal of the judge advocate-general; or by a person appointed by general officers commanding the forces abroad, to execute the office of judge advocate. The duties of an officiating judge advocate at a Court-martial are to superintend the proceedings, to make a minute of the proceedings, and to advise the Court on points of law, of custom, and of form, and so far to assist the prisoner as to elicit a full statement of the facts material to the defence. The proceedings of general courts-martial held at home are trans-mitted by the officiating judge advocate to the judge advoc...
Advocate
Advocate, [Lat. Advocatus], a patron of a cause assisting his client with advice, and pleading for him. He is defined by Ulpian (Dig. 50, tit. 13) to be any person who aids another in the conduct of a suit or action. The term is at the present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.).In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons learned in the civil and canon law, called advocates, had the exclusive right of acting as counsel. They were members of a college situate at Doctor's Commons, incorporated by charter, June 22, 8 Geo. 3, under the title of 'The College of Doctors of Law exercent in the Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts,' and had, previously to their admission to that college, taken the degree of Doctor of Laws at an English university. The jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in matters matrimonial and testamentary was in 1857 transferred to the Court for Divorce and Matrimo...
Advocate, Lord
Advocate, Lord, the principal Crown Lawyer in Scotland, and one of the great Officers of State of Scotland. It is his duty to act as public prosecutor; but private individuals injured may prosecute upon obtaining his concurrence. He is assisted by a Solicitor-General and four junior counsel, termed advocates-depute. He has the power of appearing as public prosecutor in any Court in Scotland where any person can be tried for an offence, or in any action where the Crown is interested, but it is not usual for him to act in the inferior Courts, which have their respective public prosecutors, called procurators-fiscal, acting under his instructions. He does not, in prosecuting for offences, require the intervention of a grand jury, except in prosecutions for treason, which are conducted according to the English method. Until the creation of the office of Secretary for Scotland the Lord Advocate was virtually Secretary of State for Scotland. Consult Omond's Lord Advocates of Scotland....
judge advocate
judge advocate pl: judge advocates 1 : an officer serving under the Judge Advocate General 2 : an officer charged with administering military justice (as by acting as legal counsel or conducting an appellate review) ...
Judge Advocate General
Judge Advocate General pl: Judge Advocates General : the senior legal officer and chief legal adviser in the army, navy, or air force ...
Defender, advocate, pleader
Defender, advocate, pleader, a debender exerts himself in favour of one that wants support; and advocate signifies one who is called to speak in favour of another; a pleader from plea or excuse, signifies him who pleads in behalf of one who is accused or a party in a civil suit. A defender attempts to keep off a threatened injury by rebutting the attack of another; an advocate states that which is to the advantage of the person or thing advocated; a pleader throws in pleas and extenuations. 'So fair a pleader any cause may gain'. (Dry den)...
Advocate General
Advocate General, defined. [Indian Bar Councils Act, (38 of 1926), s. 2(b)--referred in Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971), s. 15.Means the principal law officer of a State: appointed by the Governor to give advice to the Government of the State upon such legal matters, and to perform such other duties of a legal character as may be referred or assigned to him by the Governor. [Constitution of India, Article 165(1) & (2)]...
advocate
advocate [Latin advocatus adviser to a party in a lawsuit, counselor, from past participle of advocare to summon, employ as counsel, from ad to + vocare to call] 1 : a person (as a lawyer) who works and argues in support of another's cause esp. in court 2 : a person or group that defends or maintains a cause or proposal [a consumer ] [ad-və-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to argue in favor of vi : to act as an advocate [shall for minority business "V. M. Rivera"] ...
trial judge advocate
trial judge advocate : a judge advocate detailed to act as a prosecutor of an accused before a court-martial ...
Advocate on Record
Advocate on Record, means an advocate who is entitled under these rules to act as well as to plead for a party in the Court. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, s. 2(1)(b)]...
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