Meaning of legist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One skilled in the law.
2. A writer on law; also, a lawmaker, a legislator.

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Examples

“There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.”

“‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’”

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