Значення

значень: 5
  1. (історичне)A lawspeaker: a declarer of the law.

    a male officer of the law

  2. (історичне)One of 12 magistrates in certain Danish boroughs of England empowered with soc and sac over their own households.

  3. (Orkney, Shetland)The presiding justice of the supreme court.

  4. (рідковживане)A man of the law: a lawyer.

  5. (розмовне)An officer of the law: a law-enforcement officer.

    представи́тель зако́наpredstavítelʹ zakóna, суде́бный исполни́тельsudébnyj ispolnítelʹ

Русский
an officer of the law:

Походження

From Middle English laweman, laȝaman (as a man's name, Laȝamon, Layamon), from Old English

From Middle English laweman, laȝaman (as a man's name, Laȝamon, Layamon), from Old English lahmann, borrowed from Old Norse lǫgmaðr. In present use as a law-enforcement officer, law + -man.

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