Cursitor

Lat. and Eng. [clericus de eursu.] In English practice. An officer or clerk belonging to the court of chancery; "whose business is to make out all original writs. These officers are of very ancient institution, and were formerly termed eletici de secunda forma, (clerks of the second grade,) and in the statute 1 8 Ed w.

III.

St. 5, are called clerks of course.

Crabb't Hist, Eng, Law, 547.

The name is derived from the writs de cursu, that is, those original writs which issued in ordinary cases, and of course,) which it was their office to make out. ffob.

118.

See I>e eursu. Original writ,