Probator

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Probator \Pro*ba"tor\, n. [L.]
     1. An examiner; an approver. --Maydman.
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     2. (O. Eng. Law) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed
        it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to


        obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PROBATOR. Ancient English law. Strictly, an accomplice in felony, who to 
  save himself confessed the fact, and charged or accused any other as 
  principal or accessary, against whom he was bound to make good his charge. 
  It also signified an approver, or one who undertakes to prove a crime 
  charged upon another. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.