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See also:LORD See also:ADVOCATE , or See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's advocate, the See also:principal See also:law-officer of the See also:crown in See also:Scotland. His business is to See also:act as a public prosecutor, and to plead in all causes that concern the crown. He is at the See also:head of the See also:system of public prosecutions by which criminal See also:justice is administered in Scotland, and thus his functions are of a far more extensive See also:character than those of the See also:English law-See also:officers of the crown. He is aided by a See also:solicitor-See also:general and by subordinate assistants called See also:advocates-depute. The See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of king's advocate seems to have been established about the beginning of the 16th See also:century. Originally he had no See also:power to prosecute crimes without the concurrence of a private party; but in the See also:year 1597 he was empowered to prosecute crimes at his own instance. He has the See also:privilege of See also:pleading in See also:court with his See also:hat on.
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