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Probator

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

Strictly, an accomplice in felony who to save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as principal or accessory, against whom he was bound to make good his charge. It also signified an approver or one who undertakes to prove a crime charged upon another.

Jacob. See State v. Graham, 41 N. J. Law, 16, 32 Am. Rep. 174.