Meanings
plural citators
- lawAn index of citations of legal cases and other sources
A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.
1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, →ISBN, page 70 - obsoleteOne who makes a citation; a citer or citor
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Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback, cuts out three slips from a wooden rail, and places in the incision a coin and the writ of citation.
1797, “Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court”, in Annual Register, page 440
Origin
- Latincitator
- Englishcitator
From Latin citator, agent noun of citare (“to cite”).
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