To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To appeal from an inferior court to the Court of Session.
To engage in advocacy.
To call a case before itself for decision.
To encourage support for something.
A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
A person who speaks in support of something, or someone.
Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence.
To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment.
A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
A formula with no free variables.