prosecutrix

Noun

prosecutrix (plural prosecutrixes)

1. A female prosecutor
   • A man, in the desperation of a refusal (common people take those things strangely to heart), had stabbed the obdurate fair one with his knife. She was herself the prosecutrix.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 183
   • The paper reports today that Inger Marie Sunde, a prosecutrix in charge of what the locals call Okokrim (white collar crime), put young Jon on the stand again and probed for inconsistencies in his answers.2002 December 11, Mike Magee, “18 year old DVD Kid "grilled" by Norwegian prosecutrix”, in The Inquirer, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2006
2. A female victim of a crime on whose behalf the state is prosecuting a suspect
   • 1893 R v Smith. https://web.archive.org/web/20060918213824/http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1838-39/html/r_v_smith__no_2___1839.htm
     The prosecutrix was the wife of a ticket-of-leave man, named Daniel Jackson, and she was also separated from her husband, and lived for some time with a man named...
   • post 1992, STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. SCOTT CANUP http://www.caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=nc&vol=appeals%5Cappeals1220%5C&invol=canup
     In October of 1992 the prosecutrix was 14 years old and in the 9th grade at West Mecklenburg High School. The prosecutrix lived with her parents...