noun
Meaning 1
A courier or runner.
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noun
A courier or runner.
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noun
A clerk in the Court of Chancery whose business is to make out original writs.
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Usage: UK, obsolete
Topics: law
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History
From Latin runner; in the legal sense, from Latin cursitor, from the words de cursu, applied in the statute to ordinary writs.