lawyercraft

English

Etymology

From lawyer +‎ -craft.

Noun

lawyercraft (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge, training, or work of a lawyer; the exercise of lawyerly functions.
    • 1839, Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham:
      It is among the artifices employed by lawyercraft to reconcile the public mind to the sale of indulgences, elsewhere spoken of.
    • 2003, Sabine Freitag, Rudolf Muhs, Exiles From European Revolutions:
      […] that hereditary humbug, and class usurpation shall give place to popular sovereignty; that the laws shall be few and simple and lawyercraft abolished.
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