An English advocate who holds, in the courts in which the rules of the canon and civil law prevail, a similar position to that which the attorney general holds in the ordinary courts, t. e., he acts as counsel for the crown in ecclesiastical , admiralty, and probate cases, and advises the crown on questions of international law . In order of precedence it seems that he ranks after the attorney general. 3 Steph. Comm. 275n.
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