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allocatur

allocatur noun: the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

Noun

allocatur (plural allocaturs)

  1. The allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
    • The taxing-masters had done their work like any respectable gunsmith conscientiously preparing the musket, that, duly pointed by a brave arm, will spoil a life or two. Allocaturs, filing of bills in Chancery, decrees of sale, are legal chain-shot or bomb-shells that can never hit a solitary mark...1860, George Eliot, chapter 7, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 97
  2. (Pennsylvania) Permission for an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Forms of allocatur

pluralallocaturs

Origin of allocatur

From Latin allocātur (“it is allocated”), from allocāre (“to allocate”).

Questions about allocatur

What does allocatur mean?
Allocatur means the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
What part of speech is allocatur?
Allocatur is a noun.
What is the plural of allocatur?
The plural of allocatur is allocaturs.

Words near allocatur in the dictionary

  1. allocations
  2. allocative
  3. allocatively
  4. allocator
  5. allocators
  6. allocatur
  7. allocaturs
  8. Allocca
  9. Alloccas
  10. Allocco
  11. Alloccos

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