US Attorney General

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• Attorney General — n pl attorneys general or attorney generals: the chief law officer of a nation or state who represents the government in litigation and serves as its principal legal advisor Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• Attorney General of Mexico — Logo Procuraduria General de la Republica Incumbent …   Wikipedia

• attorney general — atˌtorney ˈgeneral noun attorneys general PLURALFORM [countable] LAW the chief lawyer in the legal system of the US and Britain: • The state attorney general alleged that the company forced its dealers to agree to charge minimum prices for… …   Financial and business terms

• Attorney General of Zimbabwe — is an office that falls under the Ministry of Justice of Zimbabwe. Until December 15, 2007, Sobusa Gula Ndebele served as Attorney General.The Attorney General also sits as a member of the Senate.External links*… …   Wikipedia

• Attorney-General for Ontario v. Attorney-General for the Dominion — Attorney General for Ontario v. Attorney General for the Dominion, and the Distillers and Brewers’ Association of Ontario ( Local Prohibition Case ), [1896] A.C. 348 (J.C.P.C.) is a famous Canadian constitutional decision by the Judicial… …   Wikipedia

• Attorney-General v. Guardian Newspapers Ltd. (No. 2) — or Attorney General v Observer Ltd. and Others [case citation| [1990] 1 A.C. 109] , was an important judgment of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, in which Lord Goff stated the common law principle that [In England] everybody is free… …   Wikipedia

• Attorney-general — At*tor ney gen er*al, n.; (pl. Attorney generals or Attorneys general). (Law) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Attorney General v. X — or the X Case was a 1992 Supreme Court of Ireland case which established the right of Irish women to an abortion if a pregnant woman s life was at risk because of pregnancy, including the risk of suicide.The case involved a 14 year old girl… …   Wikipedia

• Attorney-General — chief law officer of the Crown and leader of the English bar. He represents the public interest in many matters. He regularly represents the government or government departments in litigation. He may also refer matters of law to the Court of… …   Law dictionary

• attorney general — n. pl. attorneys general or attorney generals 1. the chief law officer and representative in legal matters of a national or state government, and the legal advisor to the chief executive 2. [A G ] the head of the U.S. Department of Justice and… …   English World dictionary

• Attorney General. — Attorney General. In some jurisdictions, the prosecuting attorney. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 …   Law dictionary