- a person who relates or tells; narrator.
- Law.
- a private person on whose suggestion or complaint certain writs, as a quo warranto, are issued and whose position is analogous to that of a plaintiff.
- a party in interest who is allowed to institute a proceeding in the name of a public official when the right to sue rests exclusively in that official.
- a person who relates a story; narrator
- a person who gives information upon which the attorney general brings an action
- a person who institutes proceedings by criminal information or quo warranto
