Promoter
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
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In English practice, those persons who, in popular and penal actions, prosecute offenders in their names and the crown's, and are entitled to part of the fines and penalties for their pains, are called promoters.
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In reference to corporations, those who unite in a scheme for forming a corporation, who join in organizing the plan, in securing the necessary preliminary subscriptions, and in prosecuting the application for a charter, are called the promoters.
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The term is also applied to a party who puts in motion an ecclesiastical tribunal, for the purpose of correcting the manners of any person who has violated the laws ecclesiastical; and one who takes such a course is said to "promote the office of the judge." See Mozley & W. /also, Office of Judge.