cursitor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A courier or runner.
  2. A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs. UK,obsolete
    — When actions are brought in the Courts of King's Bench or Common Pleas, founded upon original writs issuing out of the Courts of Chancery (which writs, as stated in the Report of the 9th of April 1816, it is the duty of the Cursitors to make out) it has been the practice in certain cases for the Filacers of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas respectively, to receive from the Suitors the King's fines (if any) and also the fees payable to the Cursitors in respect of such original writs, and afterwards to account to the Cursitors for the fines and fees so received.

词形变化

cursitors plural cursetor alternative,obsolete

词源

From Latin runner; in the legal sense, from Latin cursitor, from the words de cursu, applied in the statute to ordinary writs.
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