adducern.

1681 J. Dalrymple Modus Litigandi 38 Not only domestick Servants, but moveable Tenents, who may be removed at the arbitriment of the Adducer.

1683 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session I. 540 Equal number of Witnesses being Examined for either Party, one Witnesse for either side proved 40. years constant Possession of the Party Adducer, and that they did interrupt the other Party and turned away their Cattel.

1711 J. Spotiswood Form of Process ii. 101 The Interrogators given in by the Adducer, which are found Relevant by the Ordinarie.

1765 W. Knox Claim of Colonies 4 If the common law of England is to be brought as justifying a claim of exemption..it will surely much better serve the adducer's purpose, if he pleads it against a tax imposed by a provincial assembly.

1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 5 Oct. 113 Principles, from which the Adducers of these arguments loudly profess their dissent.

1817 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 27 Mar. 2/3 The charge, as far as it allows even a plausible excuse for the adducer, implies a compleat ignorance.

1932 I. Regardie Garden of Pomegranates i. 25 Such proofs, naturally, brought only contempt to their authors, and today argue badly against both the adducers and accepters of them.

1962 P. R. Teetor tr. Lex Mercatoria in Amer. Jrnl. Legal Hist. 6 194 No witnesses can..be turned away so long as they be free men of good fame and themselves, together with one of their adducers, sufficient to make restitution and satisfaction to the party against whom they are adduced.

2007 Nat. Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 Jan. Aristotle was no romantic—he was a cool-eyed adducer of moral logic.