chamber counsel

noun

1. a counsel who advises in private and does not plead in court

Example Sentences

But there was an important legal “point” which one might have expected would have occurred to so eminent a Chamber Counsel as Serjeant Snubbin. 

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We may wonder that the laborious Chamber Counsel Serjeant Snubbin did not advise “moving for a new trial.”

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But meantime our spiritual friend was poaching on the manors of the following people—of the chamber counsel, of the attorney, of the professional accountant, of the printer and compositor, of the notary public, of the scrivener, and sometimes, we fear, of the sheriff's officer in arranging for special bail.

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To the character of an orator he made no pretensions, but he evinced great ability as a chamber counsel.

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He was appointed clerk of the general court before the revolution, and attained to such distinction as a judge of law, that he was frequently consulted by the court, and is said to have given more opinions as chamber counsel, than all the lawyers of the colony united.

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