legist

lainoppinut One skilled in the law.
1484, (w) (translator), (w), “The Wulf whiche made a fart” in The Fables of Aesop as first printed by William Caxton in 1484, edited by (w), London: David Nutt, 1889, Volume II, p. 162,https://archive.org/details/fablesofaesopasf02aesouoft

Item my fader was no legist ne never knew the lawes

ne also man of Justyce

and to gyve sentence of a plee

I wold entremete me

and fayned my self grete Justycer

but I knewe neyther

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There were a number of lawyers of the older type, men in sharp contrast and antagonism to the younger legists of the new American school.

‘King and kingdom,’ concurred d'Aguesseau, wisest of wise eighteenth-century legists, ‘form a single entity.’