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
You are our president, and moreover a great legist.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Victor Hugo
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 John Richard Greene
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 Andrew Lang
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
