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

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

M. Raybaud thought it would seem wise to repeat an old impertinence of the legist, and that may serve him for an excuse.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

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