Word Finder - counsel

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The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.

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Exercise of judgment; prudence.

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Advice; guidance.

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Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.

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A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

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A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).

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To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).

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Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.

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To recommend (a course of action).

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I would counsel prudence in this matter.

This is a counsel of despair.

This person needs the counsel of a psychiatrist.

I'm a scientist and if I don't know an answer, I seek counsel from sharper brains.

After a brilliant college career, which made him doctor of laws and a qualified barrister at nineteen, he was appointed counsel to the Breton estates and in 1775 professor of ecclesiastical law at Rennes.

In one respect Mallet gave him good counsel in those early days.

Cromwell replied by requesting a brief delay to ask counsel of God and his own heart.

A similar counsel of moderation was given to the Canadian press in connexion with the Manitoba school question in December 1897.

He entered the legal profession, also doing journalistic work, and at the age of 25 was appointed provincial counsel for Brabant, becoming communal counsel in 1903.

He either sends in out-of-towners like this guy or gets big-dollar local counsel.

The attorney-general is the legal adviser of the president, public prosecutor and standing counsel for the United States, and also has general oversight of the Federal judicial administration, especially of the prosecuting officers called district attorneys and of the executive court officers called marshals.

Even Sasha, who'd betrayed them all to serve the Dark One, still sought out his brother's counsel.

The queen utterly refused to take Mirabeau's counsel, and La Marck left Paris.

The lord keeper's counsel of moderation was less pleasing to Charles I.

The rise of this function of the prophets is plainly parallel with the change which took place under the kings in the position of the priestly oracle; the Torah of the priests now dealt rather with permanent sacred ordinances than with the giving of new divine counsel for special occasions.

He began life at the bar, where he obtained considerable practice; but the loss of an important suit, in which he was counsel for a Neapolitan noble against the grand duke of Tuscany, and in which he had entirely mistaken the force of a leading document, so mortified him that he withdrew from the legal world.

Garibaldi now became an opponent of the ministry, and brc ribaldi in June went to Sicily, where, after taking counsel En iRome.

Originally he had for counsel two of the most able lawyers in the province, James Alexander (1690-1756) and.

He can accept no dignity or office which will make him independent of the Society; and even if ordered by the counsel him in important matters.

At this time also he exerted himself for the reform of justice in the ecclesiastical courts, for the uniformity of the law of marriage (which he held should be a purely civil contract) and for giving prisoners charged with felony the benefit of counsel.

He was brought to Canterbury, possibly by Becket, together with a supply of books upon the civil law, to act as counsel (causidicus) to Archbishop Theobald in his struggle, which ended successfully in 1146, to obtain the transfer of the legateship from the bishop of Winchester to himself.

He soon distinguished himself by a speech in support of the Bill for Regulating Trials in Cases of Treason, one provision of which was that a person indicated for treason or misprision of treason should be allowed the assistance of counsel.

At the Geneva conference for the settlement of the "Alabama" claims in 1871-1872 he was one of the counsel for the United States.

More important is the prominent part played by the Kenite (or Midianite) father-in-law of Moses, whose help and counsel are related in Exod.

In 1853 he became corporation counsel of New York City, but resigned soon afterward to become secretary of the U.S. legation in London, under James Buchanan.

The court has no power to compel parties to enter into a reference of this kind, and it is doubtful whether counsel can bind their clients in such a matter.

The word Niti is from the Bali, and means "old saying," "tradition," "good counsel."

His writings are marked by vigour and vitality of style, as well as by the highest qualities of the historian who recreates the past from the original sources; he had no sympathy with either legal or historical pedantry; and his death at Grand Canary on the, 9th of December 1906 deprived English law and letters of one of their most scholarly and most inspiring representatives, notable alike for sweetness of character, acuteness in criticism, and wisdom in counsel.

The hearing extended from 17th to 10th July; counsel were heard on both sides, evidence was given in support of the appeals by two of the clergy concerned and by several other witnesses, lay and clerical, and the whole matter was gone into with no little fulness.

When a layman found himself in doubt, his duty was not to consult his conscience, but to take the advice of his confessor; while the confessor himself was bound to follow the rules laid down by the casuistical experts, who delivered themselves of a kind of "counsel's opinion" on all knotty points of practical morality.

He therefore took counsel merely with his interest as a temporal prince, threw in his lot with France, supported the duke of Nevers in the Mantuan Succession, and, under stress of ' fear of Habsburg supremacy, suffered himself to be drawn into closer relations with the Protestants than beseemed his office, and incurred the reproach of rejoicing in the victories of heretics.

In 1913 he was counsel for the managers of the trial leading to the impeachment of Governor Sulzer of New York.

As regards the jus vetus, therefore, the judges and practitioners of Justinian's time had two terrible difficulties to contend with - first, the bulk of the law, which made it impossible for any one to be sure that he possessed anything like the whole of the authorities bearing on the point in question, so that he was always liable to find his opponent quoting against him some authority for which he could not be prepared; and, secondly, the uncertainty of the law, there being a great many important points on which differing opinions of equal legal validity might be cited, so that the practising counsel could not advise, nor the judge decide, with any confidence that he was right, or that a superior court would uphold his view.

The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company (1849-1856), in which, as counsel for the state, he invoked successfully the aid of the Federal government in preventing the construction of a bridge over the Ohio river at Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) - on the ground that the structure would interfere with the navigation of that stream by citizens of Pennsylvania.

He removed to Richmond in 1803, and during his last years was a leader of the Virginia bar; in 1807 he was one of Aaron Burr's counsel.

He gave the counsel of perfection that "pass" examinations ought to cease; but he recognized that this change "must wait on the reorganization of the educational institutions immediately below the university, at which a passman ought to finish his career."

His next important action was not so creditable; for he was, not exactly, as is often said, one of Cranmer's assessors, but, according to Cranmer's own expression, "assistant" to him as counsel for the king, when the archbishop, in the absence of Queen Catherine, pronounced her marriage with Henry null and void on the 23rd of May 1533.

To the days of his early desert life is probably to be assigned the treatise On Priesthood, a book full of wise counsel.

He was called to the bar in 1884, and rapidly made a reputation as a brilliant lawyer and advocate, being counsel for the defence in most of the important political trials of the day during a period of nearly thirty years.

Between Russia and Turkey it interposed, in effect,a barrier of independent (Rumania, Servia) and quasi-independent (Bulgaria) states, erected with the counsel and consent of collective Europe.

Part of the mission of these centers is to counsel women on the financial resources available to them through the SBA, including loans.

Fighting against a large insurance company can be a daunting task, so it makes sense to seek counsel from a legal professional who is well versed in insurance laws.

When the show originally aired, Carolyn Kepcher - then chief operating officer and general manager for the Trump National Golf Club - and George Ross who was the executive vice president and senior counsel for the Trump Organization.

Therapists are brought in to counsel the women who are willing to participate and the finales always end with a reunion session that includes much reflection.

All seasons of Survivor end with the final tribal counsel where the two remaining members of the tribe plead their case for $1,000,000 to former tribe members.

Qui-Gon tried to warn him, not to give into that hate, but Anakin was beyond counsel at that stage.

If you find your wart troublesome or of physical embarrassment, consider seeking the counsel of a physician for a quick and relatively painless treatment option.

Again, if any of these symptoms are experienced, seek medical counsel immediately.

The puzzled Moslem doctors explain this fact on the ground that the Hashimites were regarded as too noble to hold ordinary administrative offices, and that they could not be spared at Medina, where their counsel was required in all important affairs.

Hajjaj having promised him amnesty if he would surrender, he went to his mother Asma, the daughter of Abu Bekr, who had reached the age of a hundred years, and asked her counsel.

In 1795 he fought a duel with Colonel Waitstill Avery (1745-1821), an opposing counsel, over some angry words uttered in a court room; but both, it appears, intentionally fired wild.