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

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

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

He had all the qualities of a clever legist and an excellent commentator, and none of those necessary to a legislator or statesman.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

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