allocatur

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin allocātur (it is allocated), from allocāre (to allocate).

Noun

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allocatur (plural allocaturs)

  1. (law) The allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer.
    • 1860, George Eliot, chapter 7, in The Mill on the Floss[1], volume 2, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, page 97:
      The taxing-masters had done their work like any respectable gunsmith conscientiously preparing the musket, that, duly pointed by a brave arm, will spoil a life or two. Allocaturs, filing of bills in Chancery, decrees of sale, are legal chain-shot or bomb-shells that can never hit a solitary mark, but must fall with widespread shattering.
  2. (Pennsylvania) Permission for an appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Latin

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Verb

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allocātur

  1. third-person singular present passive indicative of allocō