Meanings
nouncommon lawyer (plural common lawyers)
plural common lawyers
- A person knowledgeable about common law.
The common lawyers of England have for centuries gloried in their ignorance of the civil law, and maintained the indescribable superiority of the common law of England, ...
1829, The Scots Law Chronicle
Origin
From combining common law with lawyer.
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