† pettifactor, petifactor Obs. rare.
[app. = petty factor: cf. petty a. and factor n. 3.]
? A legal agent who undertakes small cases. Cf. pettifogger.
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 92 Thereby, the number of pleaders and petifactors be so far increased that although the common-wealth is wonderfully torn with the litigiousnes of clyents notwithstanding their purchase is not worth their rent. 1633 T. Nash Quaternio 41 How difficult a thing it is for a petifactor to rayse himselfe, without a great deale of jugling and false-dealing. |