Chanter
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Chaunter.
L. Fr. To declare aloud; (literally, to sing or chant;) to pronounce or find, as the verdict of a jury. Si les recognitors de U assise chaunta pur le plaintife; if the recognitors of the assise find for the plaintiff. Litt, sect.
442.
Translated in some of the editions of Coke Littleton, " chante for the plaintiff."