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cursitor

cursitor noun: a courier or runner.

Noun

cursitor (plural cursitors)

  1. A courier or runner.
  2. (UK, obsolete) A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs.
    • 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...1817 December 20, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, “Second Report of the Commissioners for Examining into the Duties, Salaries and Emoluments, of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers, of the...

Forms of cursitor

pluralcursitors
alternative form (obsolete)cursetor

Origin of cursitor

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

Questions about cursitor

What does cursitor mean?
Cursitor means a courier or runner.
What part of speech is cursitor?
Cursitor is a noun.
What is the plural of cursitor?
The plural of cursitor is cursitors.

Words near cursitor in the dictionary

  1. cursing like a trooper
  2. cursing out
  3. cursingly
  4. cursings
  5. cursitating
  6. cursitor
  7. cursitors
  8. cursitory
  9. cursive
  10. cursive singing
  11. cursively

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