Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Coroner.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A coroner, (q. v.) Spelman.
    —Coronatore eligendo. The name of a writ issued to the sheriff, commanding him to proceed to the election of a coroner.
    —Corona-tore exonerando. Ini English law. The name of a writ for the removal of a coroner, for a cause which is to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, or incapacitated by years or sickness, or has not a sufficient estate in the county, or lives in an inconvenient part of it