Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Cursitor
Hist. A chancery clerk responsible for making out original writs. 0 Cursator derives from the writs de cursu that the clerks wrote out.
cursitor baron
Hist. An officer of the Court of Exchequer with administrative, but not judicial, duties. ( Over time, as the Barons of the Exchequer took on more judicial rather than fiscal duties, the need for someone with financial experience became apparent. So in 1610 a cursitor baron was appointed to sit alongside the judges. The office was abolished in 1856.