Apparitor
A Roman civil servant assisting magistrates and later ecclesiastical courts.
An apparitor was a Roman civil servant paid from the public treasury who assisted magistrates. The four occupational grades were scribae, lictores, viatores, and praecones. The term later referred to a beadle, pursuivant, or herald, and in Roman Catholic canon law, apparitors served ecclesiastical courts as summoners, constables, and sheriffs.
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- Occupational grades
- scribae
- lictores
- viatores
- praecones
- Guarantee of delivery
- provided evidence of a party's knowledge of obligation to appear
- Basis for charge
- contumacy against anyone refusing to obey a summons
- Offenses dealt with
- sins of immorality
- witchcraft
- usury
- simony
- neglect of the sacraments
- withholding tithes or offerings
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