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Record, Courts of, those whose judicial acts and proceedings are enrolled on parchment, for a perpetual memorial and testimony; which rolls are called the Records of the Court, and are of such high and supereminent authority that their truth is not to be called in question. Courts of Record are of two classes-Superior and Inferior. Superior Courts of Record include the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and a few others. The Mayor's Court of London, the County Courts, Coroner's Courts, and others are Inferior Courts of Record, of which the County Courts are the most important. Every superior Court of record has authority to fine and imprison for contempt of its authority; an inferior court of record can only commit for contempts committed in open court, in facie curi'. See Co. Litt. 117 b, 260 a; Odgers on the Common Law; Odgers on Libel.