Cursitor

A junior clerk in the court of chancery, whose business it formerly was to write out from the register those forms of writs which issued of course. Such writs were called writs de cursu (of course). whence the name, which had been acquired as early as the reign of Edward III. The body of cursitors constituted a corporation, each clerk having a certain number of counties assigned to him. Coke, 2d Inst. 670; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 238.

A junior clerk in the court of chancery, whose business it formerly was to write out from tbe register those forms of writs wbicn issued of course. 1 Poll. & M. Hist. Engl. Law 174. Such writs were called writs de cursu (of course), whence the name, which had been acquired as early as the reign of Edward III. The body of cursitors constituted a corporation, each clerk having a certain number of counties assigned to him. Coke, 2d Inst. 670; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 238. The office was abolished by 5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 82.

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In English law. A clerk of the court of chancery whose business was to make out all original writs, — writs de cursu, v. De cursu; Original writ.

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,