APPARITOR

Apparitors (so called from the principal branch of their office, which consists in summoning persons to appear) are officers appointed to execute the orders and decrees of the ecclesiastical courts. The proper busine and employment of an apparitor is to attend in court; to receive such commands as the judge shall please to i ue forth; to convene and cite the defendants into court; to admonish or cite the parties to produce witne es, and the like. Apparitors are recognised by the 138th English Canon, which wholly relates to them.— Jebb.