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relator
[ ri-ley-ter ]
noun
- a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- Law.
- a private person on whose suggestion or complaint certain writs, as a quo warranto, are issued and whose position is analogous to that of a plaintiff.
- a party in interest who is allowed to institute a proceeding in the name of a public official when the right to sue rests exclusively in that official.
relator
/ rɪˈleɪtə /
noun
- a person who relates a story; narrator
- English law a person who gives information upon which the attorney general brings an action
- law a person who institutes proceedings by criminal information or quo warranto
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And, in fact, the record in so many words so stated, and the statement was uncontroverted by the relator.
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Abraham Crist appeared for the relator, and John Greenwood for the defendant.
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There was still a relator, a private secretary of the inquisitor-general, a keeper of the archives, and four minor officials.
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As a mere relator, therefore, of the sights and sounds of great naval battles, Mr. Brownell has a fresh story to tell.
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Archie's face grew more and more rigid as he listened, but the anger that the relator had anticipated did not show there.
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