Relator
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
One who gives information. Technically, the person upon information or complaint from whom the proceeding known as information (17. v.) or the writ of quo warranto is instituted, and who is, in a subordinate sense, the plaintiff, as it were, in the suit.