Law. Obs. Also 7 exigentor, -egenter. [a. AF. exigenter, f. exigente, exigende: see EXIGENT sb.2] An officer of the Court of Common Pleas who made out all exigents and proclamations in cases pertaining to outlawry. Also, in 18–19th c., a similar officer of the Court of King’s Bench.
[1432. Act 10 Hen. VI., c. 4. Null Filicer Exigenter ne autre Officer.]
1512. Act 4 Hen. VIII., c. 4 § 1. The Felyssour or exigenter in whose offyce suche sute is taken.
1654. View Regulation of Chancery, 20. The Filacers and Exigentors … in the Court of Common Pleas.
1672. E. Chamberlayne, Angliae Notitia (ed. 6), 218. [In the Court of Common Pleas] There are also four Exigenters, whose Office is to make all Exigents and Proclamations in all Actions where Process of Outlawry doth lye.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 317. He … had given to him the Exegenters Office of the Common Pleas.
1784. Town & Country Mag., 7 Jan., 56. Ackland, esq. deputy filazer and exigenter to the court of King’s bench.
1837. Act 7 Will. IV. & 1 Vict., c. 30 sched. A, Offices abolished by this Act … On the Plea Side of the Court of Queen’s Bench … Filacer, Exigenter, and Clerk of the Outlawries … In the Court of Common Pleas … Exigenter and Clerk of the Supersedeas.
