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DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Legal Term: DEPUTY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Definition: An officer appointed by the attorney general, who is to hold his office during the pleasure of the latter, and whose duty it is to perform, within a specified district, the duties of the attorney general. He must be a member of the bar. In Pennsylvania, by an act of assembly, passed May 3, 1850, district attorneys are elected by the people, who are required to perform the duties which, before that act, were performed by deputies of the attorney general.


***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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