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66-869: The Attorney General of the Confederate States of America was a member of the Confederate cabinet . The office of Attorney General of the Confederate States was created by a statute which established the Department of Justice. By the establishing statute, it was "the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the Confederate States [was] concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by

132-448: A stage-level predicate. The prepositive in the first sentence may also have that sense, but it may also have an individual-level meaning, referring to an inherent property of the object (the stars that are visible in general). Quite a significant difference in meaning is found with the adjective responsible : Used prepositively, can you direct me to the responsible people? , it strongly connotes "dedicated" or "reliable", and by use of

198-555: A Death Foretold , A Dream Deferred , Hannibal Rising , Hercules Unchained , House Beautiful , Jupiter Ascending , The Life Aquatic , A Love Supreme , The Matrix Reloaded , Monsters Unleashed , Orpheus Descending , Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , Prometheus Unbound , " The Road Not Taken ", Sonic Unleashed , To a God Unknown , Tarzan Triumphant , Time Remembered , The World Unseen , Enemy Mine . Nouns may have other modifiers besides adjectives. Some kinds of modifiers tend to precede

264-532: A barrister, is the principal legal adviser to the government and holds the office of a minister. The Attorney-General's Office is also responsible for the drafting of legislation, and vetting of all contracts or agreements of which the government is a party, including international agreements, treaties or conventions. In Nepal , the attorney general is the chief legal adviser of the Government of Nepal as well as its chief public prosecutor. An Attorney General

330-638: A decade, making it an earlier Department of Justice that was not in the United States and that failed to create a Supreme Court . This article about the American Civil War is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Attorney general Where the attorney general has ministerial responsibility for legal affairs in general (as is the case, for example, with the United States Attorney General or

396-432: A head noun include: In the plural forms of expressions with postpositive adjectives or other postpositive modifiers, the pluralizing morpheme (most commonly the suffix -s or -es ) is added after the noun, rather than after the entire phrase. For instance, the plural form of town proper is towns proper , that of battle royal is battles royal , that of attorney general is attorneys general , that of bride-to-be

462-559: A l'orange . Identifying numbers (with or without the word number ), and sometimes letters, appear after the noun in many contexts. Examples are Catch-22 ; warrant officer one, chief warrant officer two, etc. ; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ; Call of Duty Three , Rocky Four , Shrek the Third , Generation Y . (For appellations such as "Henry the Fourth", often written "Henry IV", see above .) Other common cases where modifiers follow

528-743: A legal system which is partially derived from the common law tradition, share a common provenance. In Australia , the attorney-general is the chief law officer of the Crown and a member of the Cabinet . The Attorney-General is the minister responsible for legal affairs, national and public security, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation . Mark Dreyfus is the current Attorney-General. The Australian states each have separate attorneys-general , who are state ministers with similar responsibilities to

594-621: A long time. The Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte , QC, MP is the new Attorney General of Jamaica as of March 7, 2016. In Kenya the Attorney General is the Principal Legal Adviser to the Government and ex officio Member of Parliament and Cabinet . His duties include the formulation of legal policy and ensuring proper administration of Kenya's legal system including professional legal education. Assisting

660-541: A term that also originates from French (" major-général ") and also has a postpositive adjective, it also appears incorrectly as "attorney generals" . While Steven Pinker writes: "So if you are ever challenged for saying attorney-generals, mother-in-laws , passerbys ... you can reply, 'They are the very model of the modern major general' " (a reference to the Major-General's Song , from the operetta The Pirates of Penzance ). The modern title of major general

726-423: Is brides-to-be , and that of passer-by is passers-by . See also Plurals of French compounds . With some such expressions, there is a tendency (by way of regularization ) to add the plural suffix to the end of the whole expression. This is usually regarded by prescriptive grammarians as an error. Examples are * queen consorts (where queens consort is considered the correct form) and * court-martials (where

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792-481: Is a military rank in which the word "general" is not used as an adjective but as a noun, which can be pluralized. In modern public discourse, attorneys general are often referred to or addressed as “general”. In this construction, the word “general” is an adjective, and its use as a noun is incorrect. Attorneys general, despite carrying the title of "general", are not military officers and carry no rank. Attorneys-General in common law jurisdictions, and jurisdictions with

858-489: Is also the principal public prosecutor in the country, and is also known as the Public Prosecutor. He has the power, exercisable at his discretion, to institute, conduct or discontinue any proceedings for an offence, other than proceedings before a Syariah court, a native court or a court-martial. The current Attorney-General of Malaysia is Idris Harun since 2020. In Mauritius , the attorney-general, who should be

924-651: Is appointed by the President on recommendation of the Prime Minister . The Attorney General's Office is a constitutional body under the Constitution of Nepal (2015) . For a person to be eligible for the post of Attorney General, they must also be qualified to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court . In New Zealand , the attorney-general is the chief law officer and primary legal advisor of

990-690: Is headed by an Administrative Officer.) Crimes and offences are prosecuted at the suit of the Secretary of Justice. The Secretary of Justice, appointed by the Chinese government on the advice of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong , is an ex officio member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong . The position is normally held by a legal professional , and was, before July 2002, a civil service position. The Attorney General for India

1056-432: Is independent of predicative position; a postpositive adjective may occur either in the subject or the predicate of a clause , and any adjective may be a predicate adjective if it follows a copular verb . For example: monsters unseen were said to lurk beyond the moor (postpositive attribute in subject of clause), but the children trembled in fear of monsters unseen (postpositive attribute in predicate of clause) and

1122-543: Is not personally involved with prosecutions; however, some prosecutions (e.g. riot ) cannot be commenced without their consent, and they have the power to halt prosecutions generally. Criminal prosecutions are the responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service , headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions . The Attorney General may appeal cases to the higher courts where, although the particular case

1188-755: Is settled, there may be a point of law of public importance at issue. The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales . Under the Government of Wales Act 2006 , the Counsel General is the chief legal adviser to the Welsh Government . Since the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, the Attorney General for England and Wales was also Attorney General for Northern Ireland. The separate office of Attorney General for Northern Ireland

1254-636: Is the Indian government 's chief legal advisor, and is its principal Advocate before the Supreme Court of India . They are appointed by the President of India on the advice of the Union Cabinet under Article 76(1) of the Constitution and hold office during the pleasure of the President. The current Attorney General for India is R. Venkataramani . The Mission of the Office of the Attorney General

1320-502: Is the legal adviser to the government of the Republic of Singapore and its public prosecutor . The current Attorney-General is Lucien Wong. The attorney-general of Sri Lanka is the chief legal adviser of the Government of Sri Lanka and head of the attorney-general department which is the public prosecutor . As of 10 October 2019 , the Attorney General of Sudan is Tag el-Sir el-Hibir . The office of Attorney General

1386-545: Is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular (likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members). This is a position which existed in Jamaica for

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1452-511: Is to provide the highest standard of professional legal services to Government, Departments and Offices. The Attorney General of Ireland is the legal adviser to the Government and is therefore the chief law officer of the State. The Office of the Attorney General, is made up of a number of different offices: Since the enactment of the Prosecution of Offenses Act 1974 the responsibility for

1518-459: Is used in locating places and in mainly dated use for complex objects: Sweden/the village/town/city proper ... operating on the heart proper , it means "more narrowly defined", or "as more closely matches its character". Adjectives may undergo a change of meaning when used postpositively. Consider the following examples: The postpositive in the second sentence is expected to refer to the stars that are visible here and now; that is, it expresses

1584-468: The Attorney-General for Australia , and the respective attorneys general of the states in each country), the ministerial portfolio is largely equivalent to that of a Minister of Justice in some other countries. The term was originally used to refer to any person who holds a general power of attorney to represent a principal in all matters. In the common law tradition, anyone who represents

1650-473: The Cabinet . The Minister of Justice is concerned with questions of policy and their relationship to the justice system. In their role as attorney general, they are the chief law officer of the Crown . A separate cabinet position, the Minister of Public Safety ( Ministre de la Sécurité publique ), formerly the "Solicitor General", administers the law enforcement agencies (police, prisons, and security) of

1716-656: The Confederate States." The Supreme Court was never established because of "fierce opposition" by white supremacists to a federal court that could abolish slavery. Though the United States had established their office of Attorney General by the Judiciary Act of 1789 , this act establishing the Confederate States Department of Justice predated and preceded the establishment of the United States Department of Justice by almost

1782-785: The New Zealand government. The Attorney-General is the Minister responsible for the Crown Law Office, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the Serious Fraud Office. Historically, the post could be held either by a politician or by a senior jurist, but today, it is invariably held by a member of Parliament . The Attorney-General attends Cabinet , but the post is not the same as the Minister of Justice . By tradition, persons appointed to

1848-700: The Parliament. This institution originates from the time of the British rule, and was preserved even after the independence of Cyprus in 1960 due to the Anglo-Saxon law which continues to exist in Cyprus, as in other Commonwealth states. In Fiji , the role of the attorney general is defined as "providing essential legal expertise and support to the Government". More specific functions include "legislative drafting", "legal aid", "the prerogative of mercy" (advising

1914-435: The President of the Confederate States, or when requested by any of the heads of departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments on subjects before them." In this respect, his duties were the same as those of the United States Attorney General . But additionally, he had "supervisory power over the accounts of the marshals, clerks and officers of all the courts of the Confederate States, and all claims against

1980-528: The President), "liquor licensing" and "film censorship". The current Attorney General is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum . In January 2008, he sparked controversy by accepting other government positions in addition to his role as attorney general. Sayed-Khaiyum is currently responsible also for "Public Enterprise, Electoral Reform and Anti-Corruption". An article in the Fiji Times pointed out that "never before in

2046-533: The State shall be taken— (a) in the case of civil proceedings, in the name of the attorney general; (b) in the case of criminal proceedings, in the name of the State. The attorney general for England and Wales is similarly the chief law officer of the Crown in England and Wales, and advises and represents the Crown and government departments in court. In practice, the Treasury Solicitor (who also has

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2112-448: The accepted plural is courts-martial , although court-martials can be used as a third person present tense verb form ). This rule does not necessarily apply to phrases with postpositives that have been rigidly fixed into names and titles. For example, an English speaker might say "Were there two separate Weather Undergrounds by the 1970s, or just one single organization?". Other phrases remain as they are because they intrinsically use

2178-487: The attorney general in the performance of his duties as principal legal adviser to the government are: The Hon. Justice (Rtd) Paul Kihara Kariuki is the current Attorney-General of Kenya as of April 2018. In Kiribati , the attorney general is defined by section 42 of the Constitution as "the principal legal adviser to the Government". The Constitution specifies: "No person shall be qualified to hold or to act in

2244-525: The federal government. For the attorneys-general of the various provinces of Canada see: The Attorney General of the Republic is an independent official of the Republic of Cyprus , head of the Legal Service of the state.[1] He is the legal advisor of the Government of Cyprus.[1] Hierarchically, it is the 3rd highest institution of the state, after the President of the Republic and the President of

2310-427: The federal minister with respect to state law. Functions of the state and federal attorneys-general include the administration of the selection of persons for nomination to judicial posts, and authorizing prosecutions. In normal circumstances, the prosecutorial powers of the attorney-general are exercised by the Director of Public Prosecutions and staff; however, the attorney-general maintains formal control, including

2376-590: The few exceptions reflecting overriding linguistic processes such as rebracketing . In certain languages, including French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Hebrew , Romanian , Arabic , Persian , Vietnamese , postpositive adjectives are the norm: it is normal for an attributive adjective to follow, rather than precede, the noun it modifies. The following example is from Italian, French and Spanish: In particular instances, however, such languages may also feature prepositive adjectives. In French, certain common adjectives, including grand ("big"), usually precede

2442-413: The foregoing categories are customarily found postpositively ( all the people present , the first payment due ). Their antonyms (absent and undue) and variations of due (overdue, post-due) can be placed in either position. These two words are among the least varied from the original Anglo-Norman and Old French terms, reflected in modern French, themselves all close to common Latin original forms. A third

2508-643: The heavily conditional "should be" it denotes that, otherwise, as in the second sentence, it denotes the far more commonly used meaning in the 21st century of "at fault" or "guilty" unless the qualifying word for is added. There are many set phrases in English which feature postpositive adjectives. They are often loans or loan translations from foreign languages that commonly use postpositives, especially French (many legal terms come from Law French ). Some examples appear below: Certain individual adjectives, or words of adjectival type, are typically placed after

2574-642: The history of this nation has the Attorney-General held a portfolio dealing with matters other than the law and the judiciary", and criticised the decision. The Secretary for Justice, known as the attorney-general before the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, is the legal adviser to the Hong Kong Government and heads the Department of Justice . They are assisted by five law officers, namely: (The Administration and Development Division

2640-411: The men executed was ... , but at will this can be considered to be a verbal rather than adjectival use (a kind of reduced relative clause ). Similar behavior is displayed by many adjectives with the suffix -able or -ible (e.g. the best room available , the only decision possible , the worst choice imaginable , the persons liable ). Certain other adjectives with a sense similar to those in

2706-470: The monsters, if they existed, remained unseen (predicate adjective in postpositive position). Recognizing postpositive adjectives in English is important for determining the correct plural for a compound expression. For example, because martial is a postpositive adjective in the phrase court-martial , the plural is courts-martial , the suffix being attached to the noun rather than the adjective. This pattern holds for most postpositive adjectives, with

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2772-487: The nature of such offices is usually different from that of attorneys-general in common law jurisdictions. In regard to the etymology of the phrase Attorney General , Steven Pinker writes that the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1292: "Tous attorneyz general purrount lever fins et cirrographer" (All general attorneys may levy fines and make legal documents). The phrase

2838-890: The normal word order are quite common in poetry , usually to fit the meter or rhyme , as with "fiddlers three" (from Old King Cole ) or "forest primeval" (from Evangeline ), though word order was less important in Early Modern English and earlier forms of English. Similar examples exist for possessive adjectives , as in "O Mistress Mine" (a song in Act II, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ). Titles of books, films, poems, songs, etc. commonly feature nouns followed by postpositive adjectives. These are often present or past participles (see above ), but other types of adjectives sometimes occur. Examples: Apocalypse Now Redux , " Bad Moon Rising ", Body Electric , Brideshead Revisited , Chicken Little , Chronicle of

2904-666: The noun or pronoun, as in noun phrases such as red rose , lucky contestant , or busy bees . In some languages ( Spanish , Welsh , Indonesian , etc.), the postpositive placement of adjectives is the normal syntax , but in English it is largely confined to archaic and poetic uses (e.g. "Once upon a midnight dreary ", as opposed to "Once upon a dreary midnight") as well as phrases borrowed from Romance languages or Latin (e.g. heir apparent , aqua regia ) and certain fixed grammatical constructions (e.g. "Those anxious to leave soon exited"). In syntax , postpositive position

2970-578: The noun, while in Italian and Spanish they can be prepositive or postpositive adjectives: When an adjective can appear in both positions, the precise meaning may depend on the position. E.g. in French: Prepositive and postpositive adjectives may occur in the same phrase: In many other languages, including English , German , Russian , Japanese and Chinese , prepositive adjectives are the norm (attributive adjectives normally come before

3036-455: The noun, while others tend to come after. Determiners (including articles , possessives , demonstratives , etc.) come before the noun. Noun adjuncts (nouns qualifying another noun) also generally come before the nouns they modify: in a phrase like book club , the adjunct (modifier) book comes before the head (modified noun) club . By contrast, prepositional phrases , adverbs of location, etc., as well as relative clauses , come after

3102-410: The noun. Their use is not limited to particular noun(s). Those beginning a before an old substantive word can be equally seen as adverbial modifiers (or nouns/pronouns), intuitively expected to be later (see below ). Phrases with postpositive adjectives are sometimes used with archaic effect, as in things forgotten , words unspoken , dreams believed , Flame Imperishable . Phrases which reverse

3168-420: The nouns they modify), and adjectives appear postpositively only in special situations, if at all. Adjectives must appear postpositively in English when they qualify almost all compound and some simple indefinite pronouns : some/any/no/every...thing/one/body/where , those; Examples: We need someone strong ; those well-baked ; Going anywhere nice ? ; Nothing important happened ; Everyone new

3234-477: The nouns they modify: the elephant in the room ; all the people here ; the woman to whom you spoke . (These remarks apply to English syntax ; other languages may use different word order. In Chinese , for example, virtually all modifiers come before the noun, whereas in the Khmer language they follow the noun.) Sometimes a noun with a postpositive modifier comes to form a set phrase, similar in some ways to

3300-716: The office of Attorney-General unless he is qualified to practise in Kiribati as an advocate in the High Court." The current Attorney General, as of 2016, was the Honourable Tetiro Semilota, until her nomination as Acting Chief Justice in October 2022. In Malaysia the attorney-general or Peguam Negara (as he is referred to in Bahasa Melayu ) is the principal legal adviser to the Government. He

3366-753: The office was abolished and its functions taken over by the Secretary of Justice. Since then, the Solicitor General of the Philippines, previously the second law officer, has been the principal law officer and legal defender of the Philippine Government . The Office of the Solicitor General is the law firm of the Republic of the Philippines. It is tasked with representing the Philippines, the Philippine Government, and all its officials in any litigation or matter requiring

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3432-464: The position of Attorney-General have been lawyers. Only two former attorneys-general have not been lawyers, most recently Dr Michael Cullen who held the post in 2005, and again from 2006. The Attorney-General of Pakistan is the legal adviser to the government of the Pakistan and its public prosecutor . The Attorney General of the Philippines was an office that existed from 1901 until 1932, when

3498-459: The power to initiate and terminate public prosecutions and take over private prosecutions. Statutory criminal law provides that prosecutions for certain offences require the individual consent of the attorney-general. This is generally for offences whose illegality is of a somewhat controversial nature or where there is perceived to be a significant risk that prosecutions of a political nature may be embarked upon. The Attorney-General also generally has

3564-429: The power to issue certificates legally conclusive of certain facts (e.g., that the revelation of certain matters in court proceedings might constitute a risk to national security); the facts stated in such certificates must be accepted by the courts and cannot legally be disputed by any parties. The Attorney-General also has the power to issue a nolle prosequi with respect to a case, which authoritatively determines that

3630-714: The prosecution of indictable criminal offences is mostly in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions who is by law independent of the attorney general and the State. The current attorney general is Rossa Fanning , SC . In the Isle of Man , the Attorney General is a Crown appointment (appointed by the UK government) and sits in the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man , ' ex officio '. The Attorney General of Israel

3696-439: The services of a lawyer especially before appellate courts. It is an independent and autonomous office attached to the Department of Justice for budgetary purposes. In Samoa , the attorney general is the legal adviser to the government. Since 2016, the current attorney general is Lemalu Hermann Retzlaff (whose father Misa Telefoni Retzlaff also served as attorney general from 1986 to 1988) The Attorney-General of Singapore

3762-730: The set phrases with postpositive adjectives referred to above (in that, for example, the plural ending will normally attach to the noun, rather than at the end of the phrase). Some such phrases include: In some phrases, a noun adjunct appears postpositively (rather than in the usual prepositive position). Examples include Knights Hospitaller , Knights Templar , man Friday (or girl Friday , etc.), airman first class (also private first class , sergeant first class ), as well as many names of foods and dishes, such as Bananas Foster , beef Wellington , broccoli raab , Cherries Jubilee , Chicken Tetrazzini , Crêpe Suzette , Eggs Benedict , Oysters Rockefeller , peach Melba , steak tartare , and duck

3828-467: The state (in whose name prosecutions are brought) does not wish to prosecute the case, so preventing any person from doing so. For the attorneys-general of the various states and territories of Australia see: The Attorney General of Canada ( French : Procureur général du Canada ) is a separate title held by the Canadian Minister of Justice ( Ministre de la Justice ), a member of

3894-416: The state, especially in criminal prosecutions, is such an attorney. Although a government may designate some official as the permanent attorney general, anyone who came to represent the state in the same way could, in the past, be referred to as such, even if only for a particular case. Today, however, in most jurisdictions, the term is largely reserved as a title of the permanently appointed attorney general of

3960-408: The state, sovereign or other member of the royal family. Civil law jurisdictions have similar offices, which may be variously called "public prosecutor general", "procurators", " advocates general ", "public attorneys", and other titles. Many of these offices also use "attorney general" or "attorney-general" as the English translation of the title, although because of different historical provenance,

4026-431: The title of Procurator General) normally provides the lawyers or briefs Treasury Counsel to appear in court, although the attorney general may appear in person. The person appointed to this role provides legal advice to the Government, acts as the representative of the public interest and resolves issues between government departments. The attorney general has supervisory powers over the prosecution of criminal offences, but

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4092-494: The track". Generally to these scenarios: The optional positions apply to the debatable pronoun and near synonym pairs any way/anyhow, some way/somehow , as well as to (in) no way, in every way . Examples: It was in some way(s) good ; it was good in some ways; it was good somehow; it was somehow good . Certain adjectives are used fairly commonly in postpositive position. Present and past participles exhibit this behavior, as in all those entering should ... , one of

4158-551: Was borrowed from Anglo-Norman French when England was ruled by Normans after the conquest of England in the 11th-century. As a variety of French, which was spoken in the law courts, schools, universities and in sections of the gentry and the bourgeoisie, the term relating to government was introduced into English. The phrase attorney general is composed of a noun followed by the postpositive adjective general and as other French compounds its plural form also appears as "attorneys generals" . As compared to major generals ,

4224-549: Was established in Tonga in 1988, and was held jointly with the portfolio of Justice Minister until the two were separated in 2009. The Attorney General is defined as the "Chief Legal Advisor to Government". According to the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago, the supreme law of the nation, The Attorney General shall be responsible for the administration of legal affairs in Trinidad and Tobago and legal proceedings for and against

4290-586: Was re-created alongside the new office of Advocate General for Northern Ireland upon the devolution of policing and justice powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2010. Postpositive adjective A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as attorney general , queen regnant , or all matters financial . This contrasts with prepositive adjectives , which come before

4356-501: Was shocked . All adjectives are used postpositively for qualifying them precisely. The user follows the set formula: This can be replaced by that or so , or, casually to evoke an affected air, yea . Without the preposition the formula is even more intuitive in replies. Examples pointing: "Which of the greyhounds do you like?" "Dogs this big." "A dog that weighty would definitely fit the bill." "A dog that tall to match my friend's." Examples figuratively: "A dog so fast it could win at

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