legist

Example Sentences

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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

An astute legist can discover flaws in the best-drawn legal papers.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

At the earliest moment, then, when its academic history can be said to open, at the arrival of the legist Vacarius in the reign of Stephen, Oxford stood in the first rank of English municipalities.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

Covarruvias, a Spanish legist, already quoted, agrees with Arnault Ferton. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

I am pleased that a legist of your learning and authority should have pronounced such an opinion.

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre