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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

The party who files a bill. Oratrix, is used of a female plaintiff. These words are disused in England, the customary phrases now being plaintiff and petitioner. In Roman Law. An advocate.

Code 1. 3. 33. 1. 0RCINUS LIBERTUS.

In Roman Law. A freedman who obtained his liberty by the direct operation of the will or testament of his deceased master was so called, being the freedman of the deceased ( orcinus ), not of the lucres.

Hunter, Rom. L. 176.