legist

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Critics are feared for the damage they can do to reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker.

From Time Magazine Archive

A learned legist, he had begun his career as judge of the superior council of Alsace, and the chancellor Maupeou, in quest of magistrates who could be bought, had raised him to his new functions.

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.

Where human statute is beginning to prize the general weal, the legist is of high account, and the priest paramount.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various

M. Raybaud thought it would seem wise to repeat an old impertinence of the legist, and that may serve him for an excuse.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

He had all the qualities of a clever legist and an excellent commentator, and none of those necessary to a legislator or statesman.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de