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Apparitor

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

An officer or messenger employed to serve the process of the spiritual courts in England and summon offendere.

Cowell.

In the civll law. An officer who waited upon a magistrate or superior officor, and executed his commands.

Calvin; Cod. 12, 53-57.