Cursitor - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cursitorCursitor Baron of the Exchequer
Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, an officer whose business it was to pass the accounts of the sheriffs, etc. See Manning;s Exchequer Practice, p. 322 and note. The office was abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 86....
Cursitors
Cursitors [fr. Clerici de cursu, Lat.], clerks of the Court of Chancery, whomade out original writs, and were called clerks of cours, 18 Edw. 3, st. 5. Their office was abolished by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 82, ss. 10, 11 and 12 and their duties were transferred to the Petty Bag Office. See PETTY BAG OFFICE....
Cursitor
A courier or runner...
Inns of Chancery
Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the Court of Chancery. There were nine of them-Clement's, Clifford's, Lyon's, Furnival's, Thavies', Symond's, New Inn, and Barnard's and Staple Inn. These were formerly pre-paratory colleges for students, and many entered them before they were admitted into the Inns of Court. See 3 Rep., Pref., p. 18; Report of Royal Commission, 1855.The Inns of Court from time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, the education and examination of students, the calling of stu-dents to the Bar, and the taking out of certificates to practice under the Bar. These Regulations, a copy of which can be obtained on application to any one of the Inns, contain full information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See BENCHERS; ...
Pone
Pone. If goods had been replevied by virtue of a replegiari facias (which was rarely if ever the case), the plaint in a County Court was removed into the King's Bench or Common Pleas by writ of pone. It was an original writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the entry of the plaint in the County Court, and returnable on a general day in term, wheresoever, etc. It was also the proper writ to remove all suits which were before the sheriff by writ of justices. Obsolete, 3 Steph. Com....
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