In tbe oivil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee, wharton. See Minnesota L. & T. Co. v. Beebe, 40 Mlnn. 7, 41 N. W. 232, 2 L. R. A. 418; Mobile & O. R. Co. v. whitney, 39 Ala. 471
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)