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Syndic

Syndic, an advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator, an assignee, Civ. Law. See In the Goods of Eliz. Darke (deceased), (1860) 29 LJ (Prob M & A) 71....

Adverse authority

Adverse authority, means authority that is un-favourable to an advocate's position, most ethical codes require counsel to disclose adverse authority in the controlling jurisdiction even if the opposing counsel has not cited it, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 128....

Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice

Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice, Giving of improper legal advice is different from giving of wrong legal advice. While the former may amount to professional misconduct, the latter may not be so. It is against professional etiquette for a lawyer to give improper legal advice with an ulterior object. It is unworthy that an advocate should accept employment with such motive, or so long as his client has such understanding of his purpose. It is professionally improper for a member of the bar to prepare false documents or to draw pleadings knowingly that the allegations made are untrue of his knowledge, Pandurang Dattatraya Khandekar v. Bar Council of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 110: (1984) 1 SCR 414: (1984) 2 SCC 556....

Advocacy

Advocacy, means the work or profession of an advocate. The act of pleading for or actively supporting a cause or proposal, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 55....

Preraphaelism

The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael Its adherents advocate careful study from nature delicacy and minuteness of workmanship and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject...

Repealer

One who repeals one who seeks a repeal specifically an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland...

Revivalist

A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion an advocate for religious revivals sometimes specifically a clergyman without a particular charge who goes about to promote revivals Also used adjectively...

Sensationalist

An advocate of or believer in philosophical sensationalism...

Solidist

An advocate of or believer in solidism...

Actual practice

Actual practice, the words 'actual practice' as employed in rule 9 indicate that the concerned advocate must be whole time available as a professional attached to the concerned court and must not be pursuing any other full time avocation, Modan Lal v. State of J&K, (1995) 3 SCC 486, AIR 1995 SC 1088 (1097). [J&K Civil Services (Judicial) [Recruitment Rules (1967) R. 9]...

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