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ADVOCATE, civil and ecclesiastical law. 1. An officer who maintains or de fends the rights of his client in the same manner as the counsellor does inthe common law. 2. Lord Advocate. An, officer of state in Scotland, appointed by theking, to advise about the making and executing the law, to prosecute capitalcrimes, &c. 3. College or faculty of advocates. A college consisting of 180persons, appointed to plead in. all actions before the lords of sessions. 4. Church or ecclesiastical advocates. Pleaders appointed by the churchto maintain its rights. 5.-2. A patron who has the advowson or presentation to a church.Tech. Dict.; Ayl. Per. 53; Dane Ab. c.,31, Sec. 20. See Counsellor at law;Honorarium.

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