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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The unnecessary and superfiuous statement of facts in pleading or in evidence. This will be rejected as impertinent.

7 Price, 278, note.

PROLOCUTOR (Lat. pro and loquor, to speak before).

In ecclesiastical law

The president or chairman of a convocation.