Brewer's: Qui-Tam

A lawyer; so called from the first two words in an action on a penal statute. Qui tam pro dominâ Regi'nâ, quam pro se-ipso, sequitur (Who sues on the Queen's account as much as or his own).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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