allocatur

plural allocaturs

1. lawThe allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.

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   The taxing-masters had done their work like any respectable gunsmith conscientiously preparing the musket, that, duly pointed by a brave arm, will spoil a life or two. Allocaturs, filing of bills in Chancery, decrees of sale, are legal chain-shot or bomb-shells that can never hit a solitary mark, but must fall with widespread shattering.

   1860, George Eliot, chapter 7, in The Mill on the Floss, volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 97

2. PennsylvaniaPermission for an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.