citators

Noun

citator (plural citators)

1. An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
   • A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, →ISBN, page 70
2. (obsolete) One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
   • Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback...1797, “Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court”, in Annual Register, page 440