Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Coronator

[fr. Latin corona "crown"] A coroner. See CORONER (2). "The formal title of custos (or occasionally conservator) placitorum corone continued to be used throughout the Middle Ages, but the more convenient shorter forms coronarius, which was confined to a short period around 1200, and CORONATOR rapidly gained greater currency. The English form was 'coroner' or 'crowner.'" R.F. Hunnisett, The Medieval Coroner 1 n. l (1961).

coronatore eligendo

See DE CORONATORE ELIGENDO.

coronatore exonerando

See DE CORONATORE EXONERANDO.

de coronatore eligendo

n. [Law Latin "for electing a coroner"] Hist. A writ ordering a sheriff to call an election of a coroner to fill a vacant office. See CORONER (2).

de coronatore exonerando

n. [Law Latin "for removing a coroner"] A writ ordering the sheriff to remove a coroner from office for a reason stated in the writ. See CORONER (2). "The coroner is chosen for life: but may be removed, either by being made sheriff, or chosen verderor, which are offices incompatible with the other; or by the king's writ de coronatore exonerando, for a cause to be therein assigned, as that he is engaged in other business, is incapacitated by years or sickness, hath not a sufficient estate in the county, or lives in an inconvenient part of it." 1 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 336 (1765).