Roles, Jobs, or Offices
- Laity, persons in a religious organization who are not members of the clergy
- Lay magistrate, magistrates who are not trained in legal technicalities
- Lay judge, a person assisting a judge in some jurisdictions
- Lay assessor, a government position in the United Kingdom, Sweden, or Japan
- Layperson, a person without specialist professional training
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“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)