Citations:legifer

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English citations of legifer

  1. A lawmaker or person with legal authority.
    • 1601, William Watson, A Dialogue betwixt a Secular Priest and a lay Gentleman, being an abstract of the more important matters that are in controversie betwixt the Priests and the Spanish or Jesuiticall faction, "Preface to the Reader":
      [] if Saint Augustine against Iulian, Clemens Alexandrinus in his Stromateus, and diuerse other Doctours, Legifers, and Hystoriors doe note this acknowledgement of humane imbecilitie to be in these Heathen Wisards []
    • a. 1676, Bulstrode Whitelocke, Whitelockes Notes Uppon The Kings Writt For Choosing Members Of Parlement, volume II, page 427:
      In some cases, as in absence of the king, in the provinciall judicatory the bishop of the diocese with two capitulers, and the legifer with two senators, or other eminent persons, doe sitt togither.