Nuntius
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
NUNCIUS
In old English practice. One who made excuse for absence of one summoned. An apparitor, beadle, or sergeant.
Cowell.
A messenger or legate: e. g. pope's nuncio. Jacob, L. Dict. Essoniator was sometimes wrongly used for nuntius in the first sense. Bracton, fol.
345, § 2.