legist

Where human statute is beginning to prize the general weal, the legist is of high account, and the priest paramount.

It was a requirement of prudence and safety which commends itself to every logician and legist.

Then as an administrator he reformed the government, as a legist he reissued and revised the laws.

But this was the end of the poetic reputation of Chapelain, “the legist of Parnassus”.

Covarruvias, a Spanish legist, already quoted, agrees with Arnault Ferton.