Lexicographical Neighbors of Cursitors
Literary usage of Cursitors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Henry Maddock (1820)
"The ordering of Writs to be made out by the cursitors. All original writs are
awarded out of the Chancery by the Chancellor ; and his power, in this respect ..."
2. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"Harman's cursitors, or vagabonds, are mostly haunters of the villages, farms,
and country parts ; though often having intimate connexions, too, with London, ..."
3. Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum by Walter de Gray Birch (1887)
"T: TERRA cursitors OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY. COMMON SEAL. 1036. [i8th cent.]
Sulph. cast. 2\ x 2 in. [DC, H. 75.] Oval. An official in costume of sixteenth ..."
4. A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the by Great Britain, William David Evans, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1836)
"And whereas by the operation of this act the emoluments of the Compensation acting
cursitors of the court of chancery will be entirely taken away, ..."
5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1835)
"And whereas by the Operation of this Act the Emolu- ' ments of the Acting cursitors
of the Court of Chancery will be ' entirely taken away, ..."
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