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Cursitors
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Cursitor
A courier or runner
Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer
Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, an officer whose business it was to pass the accounts of the sheriffs, etc.
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Inns of Chancery
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,
Pone
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
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