exigenter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]exigenter (plural exigenters)
- (UK, law, obsolete) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents.
- 1672, Edward Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia:
- There are also four Exigenters, whose Office is to make all Exigents and Proclamations in all Actions where Process of Outlawry doth lye.
References
[edit]- “exigenter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.