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| apparatornoun | Alternative form of apparitor. [(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.] |
| paritornoun | Obsolete form of apparitor. [(historical) An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.] |
| magistratenoun | (law) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both. |
| summonernoun | One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts. |
| familiar | Known to one, or generally known; commonplace. |
| apposernoun | An asker; someone who poses questions. |
| bailiffnoun | (law enforcement) An officer of the court, particularly: |
| procuratornoun | An agent or attorney. |
| pursuivantnoun | (heraldry) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; an attendant of the heralds, e.g. in the College of Arms. |
| bailiff-errantnoun | (now historical) An official employed by the sheriff to carry out summonses, writs etc. within the county. |
| messenger-at-armsnoun | (Scotland) An officer who executes the summonses of the Court of Session. |
| officer of the courtnoun | (law) One who, as a function of their professional duties, must promote the effective operation of the judicial system. |
| myrmidonnoun | A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity (sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc). |
| designatornoun | A person who, or term that, designates. |
| justiciarnoun | (historical) One who administers justice, particularly: |
| serjeant-at-armsnoun | (UK) A similar officer who attends on each House of Parliament, and arrests any person ordered by the House to be arrested. The post still exists with respect to the UK House of Commons, but is largely ceremonial. |
| vidamenoun | (historical, France) One of a class of temporal officers who originally represented the bishops, but later were given status of fiefs, and became feudal nobles. |
| officiateverb | (intransitive, transitive) To perform the functions of some office. |
| returning officernoun | A local official who oversees the running of an election in a given area. |
| vergernoun | (chiefly UK, Ireland, Christianity) A lay person who takes care of the interior of a church and acts as an attendant during services, where he or she carries the verge (or virge). In the United States, the office is generally combined with that of sexton. |
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