Attorney has French origins, and stems from a word meaning to act on the behalf of others. The term attorney is an abbreviated form of the formal title 'attorney at law'. An attorney is someone who is not only trained and educated in law, but also practices it in court.
late 14c. lauier, lawer, lawere (mid-14c. as a surname), "one versed in law, one whose profession is suits in court or client advice on legal rights," from Middle English lawe "law" (see law) + -iere. Spelling with -y- predominated from 17c.
Although people were actively studying the written law since the BC era, it was the English King, Edward I in the late 1200s AD who spawned the earliest form of modern lawyers through legal reforms in England.
The idea of the shark lawyer stems from the idea that lawyers are brutal, ruthless killers, willing to drag someone down whenever they smell blood in the water.
The reason it's so widespread, if indeed it is, may be because the transition to the vowel /É/ (schwa) is more readily made from the diphthong /ÉÉŞ/ than it is from the sequence of /ÉË/, /j/, but I readily yield on the point to any phoneticians among us. That's basically it.
Most but not all US judges have professional credentials as lawyers. Non-lawyer judges in the United States are often elected, and are typically either justices of the peace or part-time judges in rural limited jurisdiction courts.
While women in Britain were campaigning for the right to vote, Cornelia Sorabji became the first woman to practise law in India. After she received a first class degree from Bombay University in 1888, British supporters helped to send her to Oxford University.
A lawyer and an attorney is exactly the same thing, which means that they're synonyms for the same legal professional. We in South Africa, refer to lawyers and attorneys, whereas in the USA, for example, they refer to councilors.
Macon Bolling AllenMacon Bolling AllenResting placeCharleston, South CarolinaOther namesAllen Macon BollingOccupationLawyer, judgeKnown forFirst African-American lawyer and Justice of the Peace4 more rows
A loan shark is a person who â or an entity that â loans money at extremely high interest rates and often uses threats of violence to collect debts. The interest rates are generally well above an established legal rate, and often loan sharks are members of organized crime groups.
1. a person who victimizes others, as by swindling or cheating. US, Slang. a person with great ability in a given activity; adept; expert. verb transitive, verb intransitive.
But it was Phillip Darryl Duppa, an Englishman educated in classical studies and fluent in five languages, who stepped in and suggested Phoenix, the mythical bird that rose from the ashes. He is purported to have said, â a new city will spring phoenix-like upon the ruins of a former civilization.
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The labor came from three sources; an increase in the number of white farmers (many of them poor), white and Black sharecroppers, and Black victims of mass incarceration (often forced to serve their sentences on the plantations they were freed from).
By 1705, Virginia came out with the first slave codes, which soon spread throughout the colonies. They established standardization, provided for the return of runaway slaves, prohibited Blacks people from learning to read or write, and gave expansive ownership rights to white people.
Republicans in Congress, to their credit, didnât appreciate the de facto return of slavery and introduced a Civil Rights Act in 1870, though it took five years to become law.
But where did the name come from, and who was the namesake for the much-maligned process? Elbridge Gerry, the governor who signed the bill creating the misshapen Massachusetts district, was a Founding Father: signer of the Declaration of Independence, reluctant framer of the Constitution, congressman, diplomat, and the fifth vice-president.
The word âgerrymanderâ was coined at a Boston dinner party hosted by a prominent Federalist in March 1812, according to an 1892 article by historian John Ward Dean.
It entered Websterâs Dictionary in 1864 â and according to Mencken, the reason it wasnât added earlier may have been because Noah Websterâs family was friendly with Gerryâs widow.