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chamber counsel
noun
- a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court
Example Sentences
But there was an important legal 鈥減oint鈥 which one might have expected would have occurred to so eminent a Chamber Counsel as Serjeant Snubbin.聽
We may wonder that the laborious Chamber Counsel Serjeant Snubbin did not advise 鈥渕oving for a new trial.鈥
But meantime our spiritual friend was poaching on the manors of the following people鈥攐f the chamber counsel, of the attorney, of the professional accountant, of the printer and compositor, of the notary public, of the scrivener, and sometimes, we fear, of the sheriff's officer in arranging for special bail.
To the character of an orator he made no pretensions, but he evinced great ability as a chamber counsel.
He was appointed clerk of the general court before the revolution, and attained to such distinction as a judge of law, that he was frequently consulted by the court, and is said to have given more opinions as chamber counsel, than all the lawyers of the colony united.
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