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state's attorney : a district attorney that represents a state compare united states attorney ...
district attorney
district attorney : the prosecuting officer of a judicial district see also state's attorney ...
state's evidence
state's evidence : a participant or accomplice in a crime who gives evidence to the prosecution esp. in return for a reduced sentence used chiefly in the phrase turn state's evidence ...
secretary of state's office
secretary of state's office In most states, the official office responsible for many types of formal state business, such as licensing of corporations and filing of UCC security agreements. Source: FindLaw ...
Attorney-General
Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the (English) Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, His fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 325; (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 298; (English) Public Health (Officers) Act, 1884; (English) Public Health (Members and Officers) Act, 1885; Official Secrets Act, 1911, s. 8), his consent is necessary before penalties can be recovered. His fiat is necessary for certain appeals to the House of Lords. See (English) Appel...
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...
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
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...
United States attorney
United States attorney : an attorney in the Department of Justice who is appointed either by the president or the attorney general of the United States and acts as the prosecutor in federal criminal cases and as counsel for the U.S. in civil actions within the federal judicial district to which he or she is assigned ...
Power of Attorney
Power of Attorney (Letter of Attorney), a writing usually, but not always necessarily, under seal authorizing another person, who is called the attorney of the person appointing him, to do any lawful act in the stead of another, as to give seisin of lands, receive debts or sue a third person. it is either general or special. The nature of this instrument is to give the attorney the full power and authority of the maker to accomplish the act intended to be performed. If it is an authority coupled with an interest, e.g., if the attorney is authorized to collect debts and pay there out a debt due to himself, it is irrevocable. As it is necessary for certain purposes (e.g., execution of a deed) that it should be under seal, a power of attorney is usually in the form of a deed. By ss. 8 and 9 of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882, now (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, ss. 126 and 127, powers of attorney may be made irrevocable either absolutely or for a limited period according as they...
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English)
Colonial Attorneys Relief Acts (English), 1857, 1874, and 1884 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 39, 37 & 38 Vict. c. 41, and 47 & 48 Vict. c. 24). These Acts provided for the admission, to practise as solicitors in the Supreme Court in England, of all persons, being subjects of the British Crown, who have been duly admitted and enrolled as attorneys and solicitors in any colony. These Acts were repealed by the Colonial Solicitors Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 14), which was in turn repealed by the Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), and s. 35 enacts:-(1) A solicitor of a Superior Court in a British possession to which this section applies who has been in practice before such Court for not less than three years may-(a) on giving due notice and the prescribed proof of his qualification and good character; and(b) on passing the prescribed examination or, in the prescribed cases, without examination; and(c) after service under Articles during the prescribed period or, in the prescribed cases, wit...
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