The liberties of the burghers were, however, still restrained by the presence of a royal advocatus (Vogt) and bailiff.
The wordadvocatus is not often used among the earlier jurists, and appears not to have had a strict meaning.
Advocatus ecclesiae,'' where further references will be found.
When it came to be applied with a more specific limitation to legal services, the position of the advocatus was still uncertain.
The advocatus fisci, or fiscal advocate, was an officer whose function, like that of a solicitor of taxes at the present day, was connected with the collection of the revenue.
The office was not hereditary, the advocatus being chosen, either by the abbot alone, or by the abbot and bishop concurrently with the count.
You can never catch theadvocatus diaboli asleep,' concluded Raphael, laughing.
When my conscience was noisy, the advocatus diaboli used to silence it by saying, "Oh, Strelitski'll take it for granted.
We certainly have no wish to play the part of advocatus diaboli on such an occasion, even were it necessary at a canonization where the office of Pontifex Maximus is so appropriately filled by Mr. Johnson.
Now we are ready for our advocates; we need an Advocatus Dei, or accuser, and an Advocatus Diaboli, or common enemy, to be defender.
This official, in short, is a sort of infernal prosecuting attorney, and has hence received the descriptive nickname of advocatus diaboli.
I will say more, for I will not allow you to monopolize the functions of advocatus diaboli: the book, to our nineteenth century eyes, has several defects.
Bedford two years before, and ardently supported by John Taylor, the Advocatus Fratrum in Angliâ, they began the practice of holding Annual Synods.
It was also settled in 1899 that the Advocatus Fratrum in Angliâ and the Secretarius Fratrum in Angliâ should no longer be ex-officio members of the General Synod.
The Vatican wisely employs an advocatus diabolus, whose paradoxical function is to establish the sanctity of a candidate for canonisation by alleging all of what is not saintly that he can rake up in the candidate's career.
Your correspondent has acted as advocatus diabolus to "Made in Germany.
Unfortunately in this case it is the case of the advocatus diabolus only with which most of his readers are acquainted--a circumstance calculated to obscure their judgment.
Now, for a change, listen to the advocatus Dei, please: It goes without saying that I have my ward's happiness very much at heart.
When my conscience was noisy, the advocatus diaboli used to silence it by saying, 'Oh, Strelitski'll take it for granted.
You can never catch theadvocatus diaboli asleep," concluded Raphael, laughing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "advocatus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
