Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A process server of the ecclesiastical courts.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A furnisher or provider. Formerly the sheriff, in England, had charge of certain county affairs and disbursements, in which capacity he was called "apparator comitatus," and recoived therefor a considerable emolument Cowell.