allocatur

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Verb

allocātur

1. third-person singular present passive indicative of allocō