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What is a solicitor?

What is a solicitor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who solicits.
  2. In many common law jurisdictions, a type of lawyer whose traditional role is to offer legal services to clients apart from acting as their advocate in court. A solicitor instructs a barrister to act as an advocate for their client in court, although rights of audience for solicitors vary according to jurisdiction.
  3. In English Canada and in parts of Australia, a type of lawyer who historically held the same role as above, but whose role has in modern times been merged with that of a barrister.
  4. In parts of the U.S., the chief legal officer of a city, town or other jurisdiction.
  5. (Canada) A person soliciting sales, especially door to door.
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The vendor usually proves his title by sending copies or summaries of the documents to the purchaser or his solicitor.
The appellant's solicitor swore an affidavit as to why the witnesses were not called at the trial.
I actually ran my opinion by my solicitor friend today, and she agreed I was being unfairly treated.
It isn't like an American or British detective series where the solicitor sits in and holds your hand.
He was denied access to a solicitor for 24 hours, but his solicitor did not in fact see him until the day after the expiry of this period.
We had a packet to send off to the solicitor with the signed and witnessed Deed of Transfer which we wanted to go as a recorded delivery.

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