cursitor
Meanings
noun
- A courier or runner.
- A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs.
Word forms
Etymology
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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