Citator vs Citatory - What's the difference?
citator | citatory |
(legal) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
* {{quote-book, 1980, Robert Stuart Lorch, Democratic Process and Administrative Law, page=70
, passage=A citator will tell you the history and treatment of a case or of a statute or constitutional provision.}}
(obsolete) One who makes a citation; a citer or citor
* {{quote-news, 1797, , , Proceedings of the Vhemic or Westphalian Court, Annual Register
, passage=Should the perfon who is summoned conceal himself, letters are written to those among whom he is hid, signifying that he ought to surrender himself at a given time and place ; and if he has taken an asylum in a fortified castle, the citator goes either by night or by day, on foot or on horseback, cuts out three slips from a wooden rail, and places in the incision a coin and the writ of citation.}}
Of or pertaining to citation
That have the power of a citation, or a summons
As a noun citator
is (legal) an index of citations of legal cases and other sources.As an adjective citatory is
of or pertaining to citation.citator
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(en noun)citation
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