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Quotation dates: 1751, 1880-1888
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COMPULSITOR, n. Sc. law: a compulsory instrument or act; anything which compels.Sc. 1751 Records Conv. Burghs (1915) 382:
You would of choise without any compulsitor order your goods to be carryed there.Sc. 1880 J. Muirhead (transl.) Institutes Gaius iv. § 171:
To restrain rash . . . litigation . . . by the religious compulsitor of an oath.Sc. 1888 Sc. Law Rev. in Law Times LXXXV. 328/1:
For the debtor . . . there is nothing left as a compulsitor except to curtail his liberty.
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