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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An officer (g. v.) In Old Civil Law. The person who was the minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In Canon Law. The person to whom the bishop generally commits the charge of his spiritual jurisdiction bears this name.
Wood, Inst. 30, 505; Merlin, Repert.