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COUNSEL AND COUNSELLOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 312 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COUNSEL AND COUNSELLOR , one who gives See also:

advice, more particularly in legal matters. The See also:term " counsel " is employed in See also:England as a synonym for a See also:barrister-at-See also:law, and may refer either to a single See also:person who pleads a cause, or collectively, to the See also:body of barristers engaged in a See also:case. Counsellor or, more fully, counsellor-at-law, is practically an obsolete term in England, but is still in use locally in See also:Ireland as an See also:equivalent to barrister. In the See also:United States, a counsellor-at-law is, specifically, an See also:attorney admitted to practice in all the courts; but as there is no formal distinction of the legal profession into two classes, as in England, the term is more often used loosely in the same sense as " lawyer, " i.e. one who is versed in, or practises law.

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