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Apparitor
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01650c.htmThe official name given to an officer in ecclesiastical courts designated to serve the summons, to arrest a person accused, and, in ecclesiastico-civil procedure, to take possession, physically or formally, of the property in dispute.
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