narrator

narrator (na-ray-tor or na-ray-t[schwa]r), n. [Law Latin] Hist. A pleader or counter; a person who prepares pleadings (i.e., narrs). • For example, a serjeant-at-law was also known as serviens narrator. Pl. narratores (na-r[ schwa]-tor-eez).

“The Latin narrator and its French equivalent contour became technical terms. If an English term was in use, it was perhaps forspeaker.” 1 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I 215 n.1 (2d ed. 1898).

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译员李明，毕业于英国顶尖的高级翻译学院，专注翻译各种与调查和白领犯罪辩护有关的法律文件。