2550: Attorney Dec 6, 2021

These days, an 'attorney' refers to someone who acts on another's behalf in a legal or business setting. Though the word can stand on its own, outside of legal contexts, it only realistically exists in fixed phrases like 'attorney-in-fact'. Neither of those words on their own have the generic sense of 'agent' or 'deed' respectively, except as a holdover in this phrase. Even the word 'attorney' is a bit strange, with double T's which didn't exist in Latin or Old French 'atorné', and was added later as a misunderstanding.