A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions. A person must have legally-defined qualifications, which vary from one jurisdiction to another, to be described as a solicitor and enabled to practise there as such. For example, in England and Wales a solicitor is admitted to practise under the provisions of the Solicitors Act 1974.
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barrister. ( 1 in England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts. Compare solicitor (def 4). 2  Informal. any lawyer.
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barrister. ( 1 in England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts. 2  Informal. any lawyer.
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Common meaning of solicitor Edit. In the U.S., solicitor is also used synonymously with salesman (with a pejorative connotation roughly equivalent to the British English word tout) as in the signed warning on public places of accommodation, No Soliciting.
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noun, Law. 1. (in England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts. Compare solicitor (def 4).
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Historical Examples. 1  He's a schoolmaster and a barrister and a poet and heaven knows what not. 2  The last sentence in the barrister's letter begins with I despair.. 3  Daily habit familiarises us with the acting of the barrister. 4  And whilst I toyed with her charming daughter, she sent for a barrister.
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Barrister definition, (in England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts. See more. Dictionary.com
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Legal definition for SOLICITOR: In English law. A legal practitioner in the court of chancery. The words solicitor and attorney are commonly used indiscriminately, although they are not precisely the s Legal definition for SOLICITOR: In English law. A legal practitioner in the court of chancery. The words “solicitor” and “attorney” are commonly used indiscriminately, although they are not precisely the same, an attorney being a practitioner in the courts of common law, a solicitor a practitioner in the courts of equity.
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See alsoEdit. 1  Barrister. 2  Conveyancer. 3  Legal executive. 4  Licensed conveyancer. 5  Solicitor General. 6  Civil law notary, a similar position in the legal profession in civil-law countries.
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This was a play on the title Procurator, meaning agent, a word still used in the Scottish courts, particularly when one Scottish solicitor tells a court that he is appearing only as the agent of another solicitor. Solicitors in Scotland have full rights of audience in the Sheriff Courts throughout Scotland in both criminal and civil cases.
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definition of the word solicitor
A solicitor is a legal practitioner who traditionally deals with most of the legal matters in some jurisdictions.