Accuser
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One who makes an accusation. ACEPHALI (Graeco-Lat.) Persons without a head or superior. In Civil Law. A sect of religious persons enumerated among the heretics.
Otherwise called acephalitae
So termed, according to Calvin, because their head or founder was unknown, and they acknowledged no religious superiors. Calv. Lex. In Feudal Law. Persons without a feudal superior; who held of no one as their lord. Baronorum homines et acephalos. LL, Hen. I. c.
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This is thought by Burrill to be the passage referred to in Cowell as descriptive of a class of levelers who acknowledged no head or superior.