Relator
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A rehearser or teller; one who, by leave of court, brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto, or other writ issuing in the name of the state, on the relation of a private person. RELATRIX (Law Lat. and Eng.) In practice. A female relator, or petitioner.
14 Pet. (U. S.) 500, 517.
RELAXARE (Law Lat.) In old conveyancing. To release. Belaxavi, relaxasse, have released.
Litt. § 445.
In 10 Coke, 52b, reference was made to a case in 4 Edw. VI., where it was said that laxare is properly to set prisoners in fetters at liberty, and relaxare is to do it quickly; and metaphorice relaxwre is to set at liberty fettered estates and interests, and to make them free and absolute. RELAXATIO (Law Lat. from relaxare, q. v.) In old conveyancing. A release; an instrument by which a person relinquishes to another his right in anything.
Y. B. P. 18 Hen. VI. 9; Spelman.
A deed of release.
See Release.