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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
n. An officer; a person Invested with the authority of an oilice. In the civil law. The minister or apparitor of a magistrate or judve, In canon law. A person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual! jurisdiction. In common and statute law. The person whom the archdeacon substitutes in the execution of his jurisdiction, Cowell.