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

It is a pity that they are not inspired by the axiom of the Roman legist, scire leges non est hoc verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

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

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

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.

I am no legist, but I am convinced that, at least British, and I doubt not American, law would promptly annul a testatory clause so utterly unreasonable and unprecedented.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew