Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abrogator | one who abrogates, abolishes authoritatively or formally. |
| accuser accusant | one who accuses. |
| aedile edile | in classical times, a magistrate in charge of games, markets or buildings. |
| alguacil alguazil | an inferior officer of justice in Spain. |
| amicus | a legal expert witness > AMICI. |
| apposer | an examiner; one whose business is to put questions. |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute, a judge. |
| archon | the chief magistrate in ancient Athens; a presiding officer. |
| archonship | the office of an ARCHON. |
| archontate | an ARCHON's term of office. |
| archontic | relating to an ARCHON, the chief magistrate in ancient Athens. |
| attorney | a person formally appointed to act for another in legal or business matters; (verb, Shakesp.) to perform by proxy. |
| attorneydom | the office of ATTORNEY. |
| attorneyism | the state of being an ATTORNEY. |
| avoyer | a chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. |
| avvogadore | an official criminal prosecutor in Venice. |
| bailli | a magistrate > BAILLIS. |
| barrister | a person who is qualified to plead at the bar in a lawcourt. |
| batonnier | (Canadian) in Quebec, a president of a Bar Association. |
| bencher | a senior member of an inn of court; a person who sits on a bench in some official capacity. |
| benchership | the office of BENCHER. |
| birlieman | a BYRLAW-MAN, an arbiter, oddsman or umpire in matters of local law. |
| brehon | (Irish) a judge or magistrate in ancient Ireland. [Irish breitheamh]. |
| briefless | having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister. |
| cadi kadi qadi | a civil judge in a Muslim country. [Arabic qadi, a judge]. |
| canonist | a professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. |
| canonistic | of or pertaining to a CANONIST. |
| centumvir | in Rome, one of a court of about one hundred judges chosen to try civil suits > CENTUMVIRI or CENTUMVIRS. |
| chirographer | an official of the Court of Common Pleas. |
| circuiteer | a judge who goes on a circuit; (verb) to go on circuit >CIRCUITEERED, CIRCUITEERING.TR> |
| cocounsel | a joint counsel; (verb) to counsel jointly > COCOUNSELS, COCOUNSELING or COCOUNSELLING, COCOUNSELED or COCOUNSELLED. |
| codefendant | a joint defendant. |
| comaker | one who assumes responsibility for a loan on another's defaulting. |
| comitia | a public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws > COMITIAS. |
| coroner | an officer who investigates questionable deaths. |
| coronership | the office of CORONER. |
| coronial | relating to a coroner. |
| corregidor | the chief magistrate of a Spanish town. |
| crowner | a coroner. |
| cursitor | a clerk or officer in the Court of Chancery, who made out writs de cursu. |
| cursitory | relating to a CURSITOR, a clerk or officer in the Court of Chancery, who made out writs de cursu. |
| daysman | an umpire or arbiter; a mediator. |
| decemvir | one of a body of ten magistrates in ancient Rome > DECEMVIRS or DECEMVIRI. |
| decemviral | pertaining to the DECEMVIRS in Rome. |
| decemvirate | the office of DECEMVIR. |
| deemster | a judge on the Isle of Man. |
| dempster doomster | formerly in Scotland, an officer who repeated the sentence after the judge > DEMPSTERS. |
| dicast dikast | (Greek) one of the 6000 Athenians chosen annually to act as judges. |
| dicastic | relating to the old Athenian DICAST system of choosing jurors. |
| doomsman | a judge; an umpire. |
| doomster | see DEMPSTER. |
| drostdy | the house and office of a LANDDROST > DROSTDYS or DROSTDIES. |
| ealdorman | a chief magistrate in Anglo-Saxon England > EALDORMEN. |
| edile | see AEDILE. |
| ephor | a magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta > EPHORS or EPHORI. [Gk. ephoros, overseer]. |
| ephoral | pertaining to an EPHOR, one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. |
| ephoralty | the office of an EPHOR, or the body of ephors. |
| ephorate | the office of EPHOR, one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. |
| escribano | a notary > ESCRIBANOS. |
| filacer filazer | formerly, an officer who filed writs. |
| gownman gownsman | one whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer. |
| greffier | in the Channel Isles, a registrar, a notary. |
| heliast | an Athenian judge. |
| indagator | a searcher; an explorer; an investigator. |
| judge | a person appointed to hear and settle causes, and to try accused persons; (verb) to decide on critically. |
| judger | one who judges. |
| judgeship | the office of a judge. |
| judicator | a person who judges. |
| judiciary | a body of judges or people having judicial power > JUDICIARILY. |
| jurisconsult | someone who is consulted on the law; a lawyer who gives opinions on cases put to him or her. |
| jurist | one who is knowledgeable about the law. |
| juristic juristical | of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. |
| jurisprudent | a person who is knowledgeable in JURISPRUDENCE. |
| justicer | a judge, magistrate. |
| justiceship | the office or dignity of a justice. |
| justiciar justiciary | an old name for the judges of the higher English courts. |
| kadi | see CADI. |
| landamman landammann | a chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons. |
| landdros landdrost | in South Africa, a district magistrate or sheriff. |
| lawgiver | one who institutes a legal system. |
| lawmaker | a legislator. |
| lawmonger | a trivially contentious lawyer. |
| lawyer | a member of the legal profession > LAWYERLY; (verb) to work as a member of the legal profession. |
| lawyerlike | like a lawyer. |
| lawyerly | like, or becoming, a LAWYER; as, lawyerlike sagacity. |
| legalist | someone inclined to legalism. |
| legalizer | one who legalizes. |
| legislator | one that makes laws, especially for a political unit. |
| legist | a person knowledgeable about the law. |
| lictor | an ancient Roman magistrate's attendant. |
| lictorian | relating to a LICTOR. |
| macer | a mace bearer; an officer of a court. |
| magistracy | the office or dignity of a magistrate. |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws. |
| magnifico | the chief magistrate at Venice > MAGNIFICOS or MAGNIFICOES. |
| mooktar mukhtar | an Indian lawyer; a Turkish local government official. |
| mooter | a disputer of a mooted case. |
| mootman | one who argued moot cases in the inns of court. |
| mukhtar | see MOOKTAR. |
| nomarch | the chief magistrate of a NOME or NOMARCHY. |
| nomographer | a writer of laws. |
| nomologist | a student of NOMOLOGY, the science of law. |
| nomothete | a lawgiver. |
| nonlawyer | one who is not a lawyer. |
| notarial | of or pertaining to a NOTARY > NOTARIALLY. |
| notary | an official authorized to certify deeds, contracts, copies of documents, affidavits, etc. |
| oddsman | an arbiter in matters of local law.paralegal a person who assists a professional lawyer. |
| peat | a lawyer allegedly under the patronage of a particular judge. |
| peatship | the state of being a PEAT. |
| penologist | one versed in, or a student of, PENOLOGY. |
| pettifog | to act like a PETTIFOGGER. |
| pettifogger | a petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer. |
| pleader | one who pleads; an advocate. |
| podesta | (Ital.) one of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. |
| praetor pretor | a magistrate of ancient Rome. |
| praetorial | relating to a PRAETOR. |
| praetorian pretorian | a former PRAETOR or man of equivalent rank. |
| prefect | a Roman magistrate or administrator. |
| prefectship | the office of PREFECT. |
| prefecture | the office, position, or jurisdiction of a PREFECT; also, his official residence. |
| pretor | see PRAETOR. |
| pretorian | see PRAETORIAN. |
| pretorship | the office of PRETOR, a magistrate of ancient Rome. |
| procurator | an agent in a law court. |
| propraetor propretor | a magistrate who, having been PRETOR at home, was appointed to the government of a province. |
| prosecutor | a person who institutes an official prosecution before a court. |
| prosecutrix | a female PROSECUTOR > PROSECUTRICES or PROSECUTRIXES. |
| prothonotary protonotary | a principle law clerk in certain courts of law. |
| puisne | puny; surviving as a term applied to certain junior judges; (noun) a puisne judge. |
| qadi | see CADI. |
| quaestor questor | an ancient Roman magistrate. |
| questorial | relating to a QUESTOR. |
| questorship | the office of QUESTOR. |
| rabbi | a Jewish expounder or doctor of the law > RABBIS or RABBIES. |
| rabbin | a RABBI. |
| rabbinate | the office of a RABBI. |
| rabbinic rabbinical | of or pertaining to the RABBINS. |
| reeve | a chief magistrate of a district. |
| reeveship | the office of reeve. |
| sentencer | one who sentences. |
| serjeant | a barrister of highest rank. |
| shyster | an unscupulous or disreputable lawyer. |
| solicitor | a person who is legally qualified to act for another in a court of law. |
| solon | a wise and skillful lawgiver > SOLONS. [From Solon, a celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 BC]. |
| syndic | a magistrate; a member of committee. |
| syndicship | the office of SYNDIC, a magistrate; a member of committee. |
| templar | a student of lawyer, living or with chambers, in the Temple, London. |
| vakeel vakil | a native lawyer in India. |