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

At the earliest moment, then, when its academic history can be said to open, at the arrival of the legist Vacarius in the reign of Stephen, Oxford stood in the first rank of English municipalities.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

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

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

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

I am no legist, but I am convinced that, at least British, and I doubt not American, law would promptly annul a testatory clause so utterly unreasonable and unprecedented.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew