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to refer to the appointment by a court of one party to act in a lawsuit on behalf of another party such as a child or an incapacitated adult, who is deemed incapable of representing him or herself. An individual who acts in this capacity is generally called a
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who participates in only a particular case or a limited set of cases and does not have the same status as the other judges of the court. Such a jurist is more commonly called a judge
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in court proceedings, when the estate's proper representatives are unable or unwilling to act.
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established the role of children's guardian, the term is now used only in the term "guardian
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Children Act 1989
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Garner 2004


Garner 2004
Garner, Bryan A.
Black's Law Dictionary
ISBN
9780314151995
OCLC
1004997820
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Latin
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