Citator
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Citator is a noun meaning (law) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources.
Meaning
(law) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
Example Sentences
A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.
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, cuts out three slips from a wooden rail, and places in the incision a coin and the writ of citation.
Word Forms
- citators
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include squib, reporter, syllabus, ticket, brief, factor.
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