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Custos Brevium

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Custos brevium (the keeper of the writs), a principal clerk belonging to the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, whose office it was to keep the writs returnable into those courts. Abolished by 1 Wm. 4, c. 5.

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