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

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

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)

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